Liquidity in the Pricing of Syndicated Loans
56 Pages
Posted: 15 Mar 2006
Case Western Reserve University - Department of Banking & Finance
Department of Finance, University of Central Florida
Clarkson University
Date Written: August 2006
Abstract
We examine whether banks price expected liquidity in U.S. syndicated term loans. Using extensive data we show that loans with higher expected liquidity have significantly lower spreads at origination, controlling for other determinants of loan spreads such as borrower, loan, syndicate and macroeconomic variables. A matched sample analysis of loans confirms our results. We therefore identify a new factor (expected liquidity) being priced in syndicated term loans, which results in annual savings of over $1.3 billion to the borrowers just in our sample. Thus, for the first time in the literature, we document a link between the secondary market liquidity of loans and their pricing in the primary market.
Keywords: Syndicated loans, loan secondary market, loan pricing, liquidity, loan trading
JEL Classification: G12, G21, G32
Suggested Citation:
Suggested Citation
Gupta, Anurag and Singh, Ajai K. and Zebedee, Allan A., Liquidity in the Pricing of Syndicated Loans (August 2006). AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=891452 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.891452
