Recourse as Shadow Equity: Evidence from Commercial Real Estate Loans

David Glancy, Robert Kurtzman, Lara Loewenstein and Joseph B. Nichols
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No 21-20, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Abstract: We study the role that recourse plays in the commercial real estate loan contracts of the largest U.S. banks. We find that recourse is valued by lenders and is treated as a substitute for conventional equity. At origination, recourse loans have rate spreads that are at least 20 basis points lower and loan-to-value ratios that are around 3 percentage points higher than non-recourse loans. Dynamically, recourse affects loan modification negotiations by providing additional bargaining power to the lender. Recourse loans were half as likely to receive accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the modifications that did occur entailed a relatively smaller reduction in payments.

Keywords: commercial real estate; recourse; LTV (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G22 G23 R33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33
Date: 2021-09-27
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DOI: 10.26509/frbc-wp-202120

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