The Informational Efficiency of the Equity Market as Compared to the Syndicated Bank Loan Market

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Linda Allen

City University of New York, Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business - Department of Economics and Finance

Aron Gottesman

Pace University - Lubin School of Business - Department of Finance and Economics

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Date Written: August 2004

Abstract

To our knowledge, this is the first paper to examine the informational efficiency of the equity market as compared to the syndicated bank loan market. The loan market is a private market comprised of financial institutions with access to private information. We test whether this isreflected in informationally efficient price formation in the loan market vis a vis the equity markets, and reject this private information hypothesis. We find support for a liquidity hypothesis, suggesting that equity markets lead loan markets, despite bank lenders access to private information, because of greater liquidity in equity markets. Only when equity markets arerelatively illiquid do we find evidence supporting the private information hypothesis. Finally, we find evidence of abnormal returns if portfolios are constructed using lagged equity returns todesignate investments in the syndicated bank loan market.

Suggested Citation

Allen, Linda and Gottesman, Aron, The Informational Efficiency of the Equity Market as Compared to the Syndicated Bank Loan Market (August 2004). NYU Working Paper No. FIN-04-017, Pace University Finance Research Paper No. 2008/05, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1294452 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1294452

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