As opposed to the public debt market, the ultimate users of bank loan ratings, lenders, may prefer inflated ratings to …' ability to acquiesce to lender demands, we provide evidence of whether ratings assigned on private bank loans are reliable … indicators of borrower distress. We find that bank loan ratings are systematically biased upwards for bank borrowers with greater …

This paper studies how organizational downsizing in a bank affects loan officer specialization and the credit default …

This study estimates the effect of the European Central Bank's second series of targeted longerterm refinancing … operations (TLTRO-II) on bank lending using bank level data from multiple countries and instrumental variable estimation. Effects …