The Impact of Joint Participation on Liquidity in Equity and Syndicated Bank Loan Markets
55 Pages Posted: 27 Mar 2008 Last revised: 15 Feb 2011
Date Written: February 13, 2011
Abstract
Market liquidity is impacted by the presence of financial intermediaries that are informed and active participants in both the equity and the syndicated bank loan markets, specifically informationally advantaged lead arrangers of syndicated bank loans that simultaneously act as equity market makers (dual market makers). Employing a two-stage procedure with instrumental variables, we identify the simultaneous equations model of liquidity and dual market maker decisions. We find that the presence of dual market makers improves the liquidity of the more competitive and transparent equity markets, but widens the spread in the less competitive over-the-counter loan market for small, informationally opaque firms.
Keywords: Syndicated Bank Loans, Joint Participation, Market Liquidity
JEL Classification: G14, G24
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