This paper investigates the role of credit and liquidity factors in explaining corporate CDS price changes during normal and crisis periods. We find that liquidity risk is more important than firm-specific credit risk regardless of market conditions. Moreover, in the period prior to the recent...

We represent the market for syndicated loans as a dynamic financial network and find that financial institutions have developed strong cross-border linkages over the 2000–2019 period. The most-connected financial institutions hold large shares of leveraged and covenant-lite loans. Our analysis...