While numerous theories exist to explain the motivations behind herding, little empirical work has been done to document the extent that herding exists in the banks or link different hypotheses to actual bank herding behavior. This paper aims to fill the gap by applying the Lakonishock, Shleifer...

Despite syndicated loan accounts for more than 40% of bank commercial loans, little is known about how bank CEO compensation impacts bank syndicated loan contracting. We find that banks with more CEO inside debt have lower non-performance loans and lend to safer borrowers. Using a two-stage...