2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfs.2019.03.006
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How do lead banks use their private information about loan quality in the syndicated loan market?

Abstract: Little is known about how lead banks in the syndicated loan market use their private information about loan quality. We formulate and test two hypotheses, the Signaling Hypothesis and Sophisticated Syndicate Hypothesis. To measure private information, we use Shared National Credit (SNC) internal loan ratings, which we make comparable across banks using concordance tables. We fi nd that favorable private information is associated with higher loan retention by lead banks for term loans, consistent with empirical… Show more

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“…12 Other papers that have used these novel regulatory data are Abdymomunov (2014) (operational losses), Black, Krainer, and Nichols (2016), Johnson and Sarama (2015), Epouhe and Hall (2016), Calem and Sarama (2016) (real estate) and, making limited use of the corporate loans data to assess the use of private information by syndicate leaders, Balasubramanyan, Berger, Bouwman, and Koepke (2016). For contemporaneous work making use of only the corporate loan data available in the Y14 see Berrospide and Edge (2016) and Luck and Zimmermann (2018).…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…12 Other papers that have used these novel regulatory data are Abdymomunov (2014) (operational losses), Black, Krainer, and Nichols (2016), Johnson and Sarama (2015), Epouhe and Hall (2016), Calem and Sarama (2016) (real estate) and, making limited use of the corporate loans data to assess the use of private information by syndicate leaders, Balasubramanyan, Berger, Bouwman, and Koepke (2016). For contemporaneous work making use of only the corporate loan data available in the Y14 see Berrospide and Edge (2016) and Luck and Zimmermann (2018).…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A financial transaction is defined as any action that exchanges or substitutes financial capital for others with different maturities [31,46]. Most of the works devoted to the study of financial mathematics analyze financial transactions and the risks associated with them [35,47].…”
Section: Financial Transactionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…How do lead banks use their private information about loan quality in the syndicated loan market? [31] Likewise, the criteria used to select the articles in Table 1 were for carrying out a literature review of the research topic. The main articles allowed us to formulate the research question, and later, both the purpose and the main objective of this study.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…According to Aslakka and ap Gwylim (2010), S&P is the most independent rating agency, and although Moody’s is usually the first to make upgrades, S&P is the first to make downgrades. Additionally, S&P makes rating changes most frequently, which suggests that its ratings may reflect more current information and that they are not anticipated by the market (Gande and Parsley 2005; Correa et al 2012, Balasubramanyan et al ., 2019). Therefore, we collected data on all ratings‐related announcements made by S&P between 1 January 2001 and 15 August 2012.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%