More than 80% of U.S. syndicated loans contain at least one fee type and contracts typically specify a menu of spreads and fee types. We test the predictions of existing theories on the main purposes of fees and provide supporting evidence that: (1) fees are used to price options embedded in...

This online appendix to "Brexit" and the Contraction of Syndicated Lending presents further robustness tests of the Brexit effect, cross-sectional results of the Brexit effect for UK firms, further results on the type of the shock the Brexit represents, the Siamese Twins matching methodology as...

More than 80% of US syndicated loans contain at least one fee type and contracts typically specify a menu of spread and different types of fees. We test the predictions of existing theories about the main purposes of fees and provide supporting evidence that: (1) fees are used to price options...

We document a 24% decline in loan issuances in the UK syndicated loan market after theBrexit vote relative to a set of comparable loan markets. The decline in lending is driven bya pervasive reduction in demand by UK firms. Changes in GDP forecast around the Brexitvote explain about 61% of the...

We analyze pricing differences between U.S. and European syndicated loans over the 1992-2014 period. We explicitly distinguish credit lines from term loans. For credit lines, U.S. borrowers pay significantly higher spreads, but lower fees, resulting in similar total costs of borrowing in both...

Corporate borrowing has substantially changed over the last two decades. In this article, we investigate changes in borrowing of US publicly listed firms along trends in five key areas: (a) the funding mix of firms and the importance of balance-sheet versus off-balance-sheet borrowing; (b) the...

Using a new dataset of UK-syndicated loans, we document a significant loan cost disadvantage incurred by privately held firms. For identification, we use the distance of a firm's headquarters to London's capital markets as a plausibly exogenous variation in corporate structure (i.e.,...