Risk-Taking Spillovers of U.S. Monetary Policy in the Global Market for U.S. Dollar Corporate Loans

Seung Jung Lee, Lucy Qian Liu () and Viktors Stebunovs

No 1251, International Finance Discussion Papers from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: We study the effects of U.S. interest rates and other factors on risk-taking in the global market for U.S. dollar syndicated term loans. We find that, before the Global Financial Crisis, both U.S. and non-U.S. lenders originated ex ante riskier loans to non-U.S. borrowers in response to a decline in short-term U.S. interest rates and, after the crisis, in response to a decline in longer-term U.S. interest rates. After the crisis, this behavior was more prominent for shadow banks and less prominent for banks with relatively low capital. Separately, before the crisis, lenders originated less risky loans in response to U.S. dollar appreciation. Across the periods, the responses to risk appetite and economic uncertainty varied. To the extent that the Federal Reserve affects U.S. interest rates, we provide evidence of global risk-taking spillovers of U.S. monetary policy, which are important but not dominant factors for risk-taking in the market.

Keywords: Syndicated leveraged loans; Risk-taking; Global factors; U.S. monetary policy; Global spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 E52 F30 F42 G15 G20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41
Date: 2019-07-23
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DOI: 10.17016/IFDP.2019.1251

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