The Dollar and Corporate Borrowing Costs

64 Pages Posted: 14 Jun 2021

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Ralf Meisenzahl

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Friederike Niepmann

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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Date Written: March, 2021

Abstract

We show that U.S. dollar movements affect syndicated loan terms for U.S. borrowers, even for those without trade exposure. We identify the effect of dollar movements using spread and loan amount adjustments during the syndication process. Using this high-frequency, within loan variation, we find that a one standard deviation increase in the dollar index increases spreads by up to 15 basis points and reduces loan amounts and underpricing by up to 2 percent and 7 basis points, respectively. These effects are concentrated in dollar appreciations. Our results suggest that global factors reflected in the dollar affect U.S. borrowing costs.

JEL Classification: F15, G15, G21, G23

Suggested Citation

Meisenzahl, Ralf and Niepmann, Friederike and Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim, The Dollar and Corporate Borrowing Costs (March, 2021). International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1312, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3865428 or http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/IFDP.2021.1312

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