Fiscal Consolidation and the Cost of Credit : Evidence from Syndicated Loans /

We examine how the cost of corporate credit varies around fiscal consolidations aimed at reducing government debt. Using a new dataset on fiscal consolidations and syndicated corporate loan data, we find that loan spreads increase with fiscal consolidations, especially for small firms, domestic firm...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Agca, Senay
مؤلفون آخرون: Igan, Deniz
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2013.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2013/036
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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