Using highly detailed data on the loan portfolios of large U.S. banks, we document that these banks "specialize" by concentrating their lending disproportionately into one industry. This specialization improves a bank’s industry-specific knowledge and allows it to offer generous loan terms to...

When a firm’s loans are first traded in the secondary market, private information about the firm is disclosed to a select group of large investors, so called “Qualified Institutional Buyers” (QIBs). We document a significant information effect that benefits these buyers in the firm’s...

We identify a group of lenders specializing in syndicating tradable loans (referred to as transactional lenders, “TLs”). We show that borrowers borrowing from TLs experience worse operating performance and more severe credit quality deterioration after loan origination compared to those...