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We study the effects of mark-to-market accounting (MTM) on banks' loan origination and retention decisions. We point out a conceptual shortcoming of MTM. Loan prices are informative in equilibrium but this price discovery is sustained by the good banks' costly retention. The attempt to exploit...
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This paper extends what we know about loss given default (LGD) on commercial loans by studying certain types of these loans that have been excluded from previous research but that may be more representative of loans held by small and mid-sized banks. We use a newly available dataset on...
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In this paper, we show that when banks increase their use of wholesale funding they shorten the maturity of loans to corporations. This effect appears to be linked to banks' exposure to rollover risk resulting from their increasing use of short-term uninsured funding. Banks that use more...
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loan syndicates. While the purpose of TARP was to stimulate the flow of credit during the economic downturn, the low cost … of capital could have functioned as a double-edged sword by imprudently increasing lenders' credit risk-appetite. Our … documenting a greater share of lead arranger commitment during a period of time when credit monitoring was strengthened …
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This paper studies how organizational downsizing in a bank affects loan officer specialization and the credit default …
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Using Roberts (2015) loan-level data from 2000 to 2011, we find that the inception of CDS trading on reference firms' debt is associated with a decreased number and lower probability of amendments, restatements, and rollovers to existing lenders of bank loans. Reference firms are also less...
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Middle-aged people have a higher demand for bank loans compared to other age groups and banks that are active in regions with more middle-aged residents are exposed to higher loan demand. This generates a geographically varying demand for loans. Using this variation, we show that banks increase...
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We analyze how Credit Default Swaps (CDS) affect bank incentives and borrower outcomes in renegotiations after covenant …
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Prior research acknowledges that the determinants, timeliness, and economic implications of banks' provisions for loan losses (PLL) vary across loan types. However, the lack of machine-readable data on PLL by loan type has precluded researchers from incorporating loan type into the evaluation of...
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-securitized loans. The result can largely be explained by their degree of information asymmetry and credit risk. We find that lead banks …
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