Large customer-supplier links and syndicate loan structure

Ettore Croci, Marta Degl'Innocenti, Si Zhou

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Abstract

Relationships between large customers and suppliers expose lenders to additional risks. These risks may force lead agents to retain a larger share of syndicated loans, reducing loan-level diversification, and, in turn, increasing the required interest rate spread. Consistent with this view, we find that borrowers’ dependence on a few larger customers or suppliers positively affects the cost of the loans indirectly through the loan structure. Instead, we do not observe a direct cost associated with large customer-supplier links, suggesting that lead agents do not increase the interest rate spread as compensation for the additional risks of dealing with borrowers with large customer-supplier links per se. Finally, we document an inverted U-shaped relationship between the length of the large customer-supplier link and the loan share held by the lead agent.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)101844-N/A
RivistaJournal of Corporate Finance
Volume66
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2021

Keywords

  • Diversification
  • Large customer-supplier link
  • Loan pricing
  • Loan structure

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