The loan market is a hybrid between a public and a private market, comprised of financial institutions with access to private information about borrowing firms. We test whether this is reflected in informationally efficient price formation in the loan market vis a vis the equity markets, and...

The relation between corporate loan spreads and the default-free rate is investigated to determine whether lenders of corporate loans influence prices through increasing loan spreads as the default-free rate decreases, exploiting borrowers' rate relief. The Loan Pricing Corporation DealScan...

We investigate the relationship between corporate loan spreads and maturity to test whether lenders are compensated for longer maturity loans (tradeoff hypothesis) or limit their exposure by forcing riskier borrowers to take short-term loans (creditquality hypothesis). Earlier studies reject the...

Background: We investigate whether the success of contrarian investment strategies can be attributed to differences in the relative illiquidity of stocks categorized as value investments versus those categorized as glamour portfolios. Methods: Following Lakonishok et al. (J Financ...

We investigate the relation between corporate loan spreads and collateralization. We use propensity scoring to create a matched sample of pairs of loan facilities from the Dealscan database. We find that noncollateralized loans are associated with lower spreads even after controlling for risk....

We investigate the relation between corporate loan spreads and maturity to test whether lenders are compensated for longer maturity loans (tradeoff hypothesis) or limit their exposure by forcing riskier borrowers to take short-term loans (credit-quality hypothesis). Earlier studies reject the...