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The Impact of Credit Default Swap Trading on Loan Syndication

We analyze the impact of credit default swap (CDS) trading on bank syndication activity. Theoretically, the effect of CDS trading is ambiguous: on the one hand, CDS can improve risk-sharing and hence be a more flexible risk management tool than loan syndication; on the other hand, CDS trading can reduce bank monitoring incentives. We document that banks are less likely to syndicate loans and retain a larger loan fraction once CDS are actively traded on the borrower’s debt. We then discern the risk management and the moral hazard channel. We find no evidence that the reduced likelihood to syndicate loans is a result of increased moral hazard problems.

15. March 2016

Authors Daniel Streitz

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Keywords

default risk banks credit default swaps derivatives syndicated loans loan covenants risk management

JEL Classification

G21 G32

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