We derive a measure of aggregate systemic risk, designated CATFIN, that complements bank-specific systemic risk measures by forecasting macroeconomic downturns six months into the future using out-of-sample tests conducted with US, European and Asian bank data. Consistent with bank...

Limbo loans are defined as delinquent mortgage loans that have not progressed to resolution. We utilize a unique legal database for Florida and find no support for resolution delays from bottlenecks or bank capital constraints. Instead, the impairment of property rights explains both the...

Established, low-leverage equity REITs with access to the public debt market rely on both non-recourse mortgages and full recourse bonds/notes as sources of long term debt. Interest rates on secured, non-recourse debt (mortgages) include a costly strategic default option premium and do not...

We examine the information content of quarterly earnings announcements in the syndicated bank loan market, a hybrid public/private debt market that is exclusively comprised of informed institutional participants. In contrast to the literature on equity price reactions to earnings announcements,...

Conflicts of interest in combining lending with the merger advisement of acquiring firms are found using two separate methodologies. First, commercial banks that advise acquirers with which they have had a prior lending relationship experience a significantly negative abnormal return, averaging...

Investment analysts require information on potential losses from contingent liabilities such as litigation expenses. However, revelation of the firm's private estimates of the probability of loss and possible legal damages can be detrimental to the firm by encouraging litigation and increasing...

In contrast to the literature involving U.S. bank domestic lending, we find that mutual funds affiliated with lending banks reduce their equity investment and turnover in the non-U.S. listed stock of their non-U.S. borrowers compared to non-lending banks or unaffiliated mutual funds. Reduced...

In order to analyze firm value, investment analysts require information on potential losses from contingent liabilities such as litigation damages. However, revelation of the firm's private estimates of the probability of loss and possible legal damages can be detrimental to the firm by...