Using a new dataset on syndicated loan primary market pricing adjustments, we examine whether relationship banks' information advantage facilitates price discovery in loan issuances. We find that the lead bank makes fewer adjustments to the initial pricing terms of a syndicated loan and shortens...

Syndicated loan offerings exhibit U-shaped underpricing. We develop a model of loan underwriting that incorporates the lead bank's loan retention to explain this phenomenon. The bank partially adjusts the offer price for “hot” loans with strong demand, resulting in underpricing to induce...

This research examined social impact investment (SII) in social and affordable housing in Australia. It considered US and UK models, together with interviews with government experts, social impact investors and not-for-profit housing providers, to inform the analysis. In Australia, the funding...

We investigate whether corporate governance is related to insolvency risk of financial institutions. Using a large sample of U.S. financial institutions over the 2005–2010 period, we find that corporate governance is positively related with insolvency risk of financial institutions as proxied...

Syndicated loans integrate bank monitoring with risk sharing similar to corporate bonds. Consistent with this argument, we find that firms use more loans and fewer bonds, and increase capital expenditures, after initial access to the syndicated loan market. The growth of collateralized loan...

Turkish Abstract: Katılım bankaları, İslami prensipler çerçevesinde faaliyette bulunan ve temelinde kar-zarar ortaklığı olan finansal kurumlardır. Türkiye’de katılım bankalarının, bankacılık sistemine göre daha hızlı büyüme sergiledikleri fakat yeterli düzeyde pazar...

This research investigated Social impact investment (SII), which aims to generate and actively measure social and financial returns. There are several promising SII models—including housing supply bonds, property funds, funding social enterprises, social impact bonds and social impact loans....

This paper examines two aspects of work family conflict: work conflicting with family and Family conflicts with work among the employees working in the public and private sectors banks in Gujarat. Conflict is the incompatibility faced by an individual among themselves and with other objects at...

This is an Internet Appendix with additional tables for Zhang, Zhang, and Zhao (2022, available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3519341). The abstract of the paper is as follows:Using a dataset on syndicated loan primary market pricing adjustments, we examine whether relationship banks’...

Forty percent of firms share banks with their industry competitors. We find that firms borrowing from and switching to their competitors’ banks pay lower loan spreads. The impact is stronger when firms are more financially constrained, bank monitoring is less costly, or product market...