Collateral pricing

We examine how collateral affects the cost of debt capital. Using a novel data set of secured debt issued by U.S. airlines, we construct industry-specific measures of collateral redeployability. We show that debt tranches that are secured by more redeployable collateral exhibit lower credit spreads,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benmelech, Efraim, Bergman, Nittai
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52526
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6486-333X