Crossing the Credit Channel : Credit Spreads and Firm Heterogeneity /

Credit spreads rise after a monetary policy tightening, yet spread reactions are heterogeneous across firms. Exploiting information from a panel of corporate bonds matched with balance sheet data for U.S. non-financial firms, we document that firms with high leverage experience a more pronounced inc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Gareth
Other Authors: Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/267
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