A note on market response to corporate loan announcements in Canada

This note validates the key results of prior studies of bank loan announcement effects using a common data set drawn from the Canadian capital market. Announcements of bank loans are associated with positive abnormal returns significantly higher than for private placements and loan syndications. Ann...

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Main Author: Aintablian, Sebouh (author)
Other Authors: Roberts, Gordon S. (author)
Format: article
Published: 2000
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4266(99)00063-1
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378426699000631
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Summary:This note validates the key results of prior studies of bank loan announcement effects using a common data set drawn from the Canadian capital market. Announcements of bank loans are associated with positive abnormal returns significantly higher than for private placements and loan syndications. Announcement effects are most pronounced when monitoring is most intense and when an announcement signals that the bank's private information is favorable. Conclusions of prior studies on bank loan announcements, conducted exclusively on US data, are robust for a different banking system.