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We analyse whether soliciting multiple ratings leads to lower syndicated loan spreads. Our results document that banks apply, on average, lower spreads to multi-rated firms. This effect depends on the reduction of information asymmetry about borrowers' creditworthiness (information production...
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premium relative to the bond-implied credit spread. In a sample of secured term loans to noninvestment-grade firms, the …' willingness to pay for bank credit and raises questions about the nature of competition in the loan market …
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stressed credit markets and confirms their superior performance in explaining the behavior of Credit Default Swap rates for the …
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This paper examines the impact of the recent global financial crisis on the cost of debt capital (syndicated loans) in a leading emerging market, namely China, using difference-in-differences and GARCH approaches. Before the crisis China adopted banking reforms allowing entry of foreign banks...
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This paper examines the impact of the recent global financial crisis on the cost of debt capital (syndicated loans) in a leading emerging market, namely China, using difference-in-differences and GARCH approaches. Before the crisis China adopted banking reforms allowing entry of foreign banks...
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We investigate how the introduction of market-based pricing, the practice of tying loan interest rates to credit …
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This paper provides a more direct test of the superior information hypothesis of banks and informs a long standing policy debate about whether banks serve a special information role in the economy. I circumvent the self-selection bias that contaminated prior studies by obtaining bank loan...
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We investigate how the introduction of market-based pricing, the practice of tying loan interest rates to credit …
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Productive firms can access credit markets directly by issuing corporate bonds or by borrowing through financial … intermediaries. In this paper, we study the cyclical properties of corporate credit provision through these two types of debt … instruments in major advanced economies. We argue that the cyclicality of corporate credit is closely related to the cyclicality …
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" approach to study how lender composition and willingness to provide credit affect the relationship between credit expansions … and real activity. A key advantage of jointly modeling the demand for and supply of credit is the ability to evaluate … equilibrium elasticities of credit quantities with respect to variables of interest. We document that the sectoral composition of …
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