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000195495 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1093/rfs/hht069
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000195495 245__ $$aCan Equity Volatility Explain the Global Loan Pricing Puzzle?
000195495 260__ $$aCary$$bOxford Univ Press Inc$$c2013
000195495 269__ $$a2013
000195495 300__ $$a41
000195495 336__ $$aJournal Articles
000195495 520__ $$aThis paper examines whether unobservable differences in firm volatility are responsible for the global loan pricing puzzle, which is the observation that corporate loan interest rates appear to be lower in Europe than in the United States. We analyze whether equity volatility, an error prone measure of firm volatility, can explain this difference in loan spreads. We show that using equity volatility in OLS regressions will result in biased and inconsistent estimates of the difference in U.S. and European loan spreads. We use instrumental variable methods to identify consistent estimates and find no difference in U.S. and European loan spreads.
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000195495 700__ $$aGaul, Lewis
000195495 700__ $$aUysal, Pinar
000195495 773__ $$j26$$k12$$q3225-3265$$tReview Of Financial Studies
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