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In the mid-1990s, institutional investors entered the syndicated loan market and started to serve borrowers as lead arrangers. Why are non-banks able to compete for this role against banks? How do the composition of syndicates and loan pricing differ among lead arrangers? By using a dataset of...
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All other terms being equal (e.g. seniority), syndicated loan contracts provide larger lending compensations (in percentage points) to institutions funding larger amounts. This paper explores empirically the motivation for such a price design on a sample of sovereign syndicated loans in the...
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During the past decade non-bank institutional investors are increasingly taking larger roles in the corporate lending than they historically have played. These non-bank institutional lenders typically have higher required rates of return than banks, but invest in the same loan facilities. In a...
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This study explores the impact of information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers on loan syndicate structure. Using a sample of 17,839 loans raised by 8,701 US firms between January 1986 and August 2007, we confirm existing evidence that lead arrangers form concentrated syndicates when...
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This paper proposes a stochastic model of a bipartite credit network between banks and the non-bank corporate sector … number of loans seems fuzzy. Distinguishing between contagion due to interbank credit and due to joint exposures to …
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The paper investigates the role of network centrality in predicting borrowers' and lenders' behavior in peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. The empirical analysis of data from Renrendai, a leading lending platform in the People's Republic of China, reveals that the lenders who are at the center of a...
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We study the sensitivity of banks' credit supply to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to banks … branches in the UK, we connect firms' access to bank credit to the financial condition (i.e., bank health and the use of core … conditions did not influence credit availability irrespective of the functional distance (i.e., the distance between bank branch …
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We study the sensitivity of banks' credit supply to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to banks … branches in the UK, we connect firms' access to bank credit to the financial condition (i.e., bank health and the use of core … conditions did not influence credit availability irrespective of the functional distance (i.e., the distance between bank branch …
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We study the sensitivity of banks' credit supply to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to banks … branches in the UK, we connect firms' access to bank credit to the financial condition (i.e., bank health and the use of core … conditions did not influence credit availability irrespective of the functional distance (i.e., the distance between bank branch …
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in France whose rates are set by the government. Using administrative credit-registry and regulatory bank data, we find … that a one-percentage-point increase in funding costs reduces credit by 17%. To insulate their profits, banks reach for …
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