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The Loan Covenant Channel: How Bank Health Transmits to the Real Economy / Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Antonio Falato.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel.
Contributor:
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Falato, Antonio.
Series:
Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23879.
NBER working paper series no. w23879
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Other Title:
Loan Covenant Channel
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
Summary:
We document the importance of covenant violations in transmitting bank health to non-financial firms using a new supervisory data set of bank loans. Roughly one-third of loans in our data breach a covenant during the 2008-09 period, providing lenders the opportunity to force a renegotiation of loan terms or to accelerate repayment of otherwise long-term credit. Lenders in worse health are more likely to force a reduction in the loan commitment following a violation. The reduction in credit to borrowers who violate a covenant accounts for the majority of the cross-sectional variation in credit supply during the 2008-09 crisis.
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September 2017.

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