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Which Financial Frictions? Parsing the Evidence from the Financial Crisis of
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1 Which Financial Frictions? Parsing the Evidence from the Financial Crisis of Tobias Adrian Federal Reserve Bank of New York Hyun Song Shin Princeton University May 6, 2012 Paolo Colla Bocconi University Abstract The financial crisis of has sparked keen interest in models of financial frictions and their impact on macro activity. Most models share the feature that borrowers suffer a contraction in the quantity of credit. However, the evidence suggests that although bank lending to firms declines during the crisis, bond financing actually increases to make up much of the gap. This paper reviews both aggregate and micro level data and highlights the shift in the composition of credit between loans and bonds. Motivated by the evidence, we formulate a model of direct and intermediated credit that captures the key stylized facts. In our model, the impact on real activity comes from the spike in risk premiums, rather than contraction in the total quantity of credit. Paper for the NBER Macro Annual Conference, April 20-21, We thank Daron Acemoglu, Olivier Blanchard, Thomas Eisenbach, Mark Gertler, Simon Gilchrist, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Jonathan Parker and Michael Woodford for comments on an earlier version of the paper. We also thank Michael Roberts and Simon Gilchrist for making available data used in this paper.
2 1 Introduction The financial crisis of has given renewed impetus to the study of financial frictions and their impact on macroeconomic activity. Economists have refined existing models of financial frictions to construct narratives of the recent crisis. Although the recent innovations to the modeling of financial frictions share many common elements, they also differ along some key dimensions. These differences may not matter so much for storytelling exercises that focus on constructing logically consistent narratives that highlight particular aspects of the crisis. However, the differences begin to take on more significance when economists turn their attention to empirical or policy-related questions that bear on the costs of financial crises. Since policy questions must make judgments on the relative weight given to specific features of the models, the underpinnings of the model matter for the debates. A long-running debate in macroeconomics is whether financial frictions manifest themselves mainly through shocks to the demand for credit or to its supply. Frictions operating through shocks to demand may be the result of the deterioration of the creditworthiness of borrowers, perhaps through tightening collateral constraints or to declines in the net present value of the borrowers projects. Shocks to supply arise from tighter lending criteria applied by the lender, especially by the banking sector. The outcome of this debate has consequences not only for the way that economists approach the theory but also for the conduct of financial regulation and macro stabilization policy. Our paper has two main objectives. The first is to revisit the debate on the demand and supply of credit to firms in the light of the evidence from the recent crisis. We argue that the evidence points overwhelmingly to a shock in the supply of intermediated credit by banks and other financial intermediaries. Firms that had access to direct credit through the bond market took advantage of their market access and tapped the bond market in large quantities. For such firms, the decline is bank lending was largely made up through increased borrowing in the bond market. However, the cost of credit rose steeply, whether for direct or intermediated credit, suggesting that the demand curve for bond financing shifted out as a response to the inward shift in the bank credit supply curve. Our finding echoes the earlier study by Kashyap, Stein and Wilcox (1993), who pointed to the importance of shocks to the supply of intermediated credit as a key driver of financial frictions. 1
3 The evidence suggests a number of follow-up questions. Our second objective in this paper is to enumerate these questions and explore possible routes to answering them. What is so special about the banking sector? Why did the recent economic downturn affect the banking sector so differently from the investors in bonds? Kashyap, Stein and Wilcox (1993) envisaged a specific shock to the banking sector, through tighter reserve constraints coming from monetary policy tightening, thereby squeezing bank lending. However, the downturn in was more widespread, hitting not only the banking sector but the broader economy. We still face the question of why the banking sector behavesinsuchadifferent way from the rest of the economy. If banks were simply a veil, and merely reflected the preferences of the depositors who provide funding to the banks for on-lending, then banks would be irrelevant for financial conditions. A challenge for any macro model with a banking sector is to explain how one dollar that goes through the banking system is different from one dollar that goes directly to borrowers from savers. Holding savers wealth fixed, when the banking sector contracts in a deleveraging episode, money that used to flow to borrowers through the banking sector now flows to borrowers directly through the bond market. Thus, showing that the banking sector matters in a macro context entails showing that the relative size of the direct and intermediated financeinaneconomymattersforfinancial conditions. We begin in Section 2 by laying out some aggregate evidence from the Flow of Funds and highlight the points of contact with the theoretical literature on financial frictions. In Section 3, we delve deeper into the micro evidence on firm-level credit decisions and find that it corroborates the evidence in the aggregate data. Based on the evidence, we draw up a checklist for a theory of financial frictions, and sketch a simple static model of direct and intermediated credit that attempts to address the checklist. Along the way, we review the theoretical literature in the light of the evidence. Although many of the recent modeling innovations bring us closer to addressing the full set of facts, there are a number of areas where modeling innovations are still needed. We hope that our paper may be a spur to further efforts at closing these gaps. 2
4 Non-corporate business sector total borrowing (trillion dollars) Q1 1991Q3 1993Q1 1994Q3 1996Q1 1997Q3 1999Q1 2000Q3 2002Q1 2003Q3 2005Q1 2006Q3 2008Q1 2009Q3 2011Q1 farm credit system loans US government loans other loans and advances bank loans n.e.c. commercial mortgages multifamily residential mortgages home mortgages Figure 1. Credit to non-financial non-corporate businesses (Source: US Flow of Funds, tables L103, L104) 2 Preliminaries 2.1 Aggregate Evidence Most models of financial frictions share the feature that the total quantity of credit to the non-financial corporate sector decreases in a downturn, whether it is due to a decline in the demand for credit or its supply. However, even this basic proposition needs some qualification when we examine the evidence in any detail. Figure 1 shows the total credit to the US non-financial non-corporate business sector from 1990 (both farm and non-farm). Mortgages of various types figure prominently in the composition of total credit and suggest that the availability of collateral is an important determinant of credit to the non-corporate business sector. The trough in total credit comes in the second quarter of 2011, and the peak to trough decline in total credit is roughly is 8%. Figure 2 examines the evolution of credit to the corporate business sector in the United States (the non-farm, non-financial corporate business sector). The left hand panel is in levels, taken from Table L.102 of the US Flow of Funds, while the right hand panel plots the quarterly changes, taken from Table F.102 of the Flow of Funds. The plots reveal some distinctive divergent patterns in the various components of credit. In the left hand panel, the lower three components are (broadly speaking) credit that is provided by banks and other intermediaries, while the top series is the total credit obtained in the form of corporate bonds. The narrow strip between the bond and bank 3
5 Trillion dollars Corporate bonds Commercial paper Other loans and advances Bank loans n.e.c. Billion Dollars Change in corporate bonds Change in loans Q1 1991Q3 1993Q1 1994Q3 1996Q1 1997Q3 1999Q1 2000Q3 2002Q1 2003Q3 2005Q1 2006Q3 2008Q1 2009Q3 2011Q1 Total mortgages Q1 2010Q1 2009Q1 2008Q1 2007Q1 2006Q1 2005Q1 2004Q1 2003Q1 2002Q1 2001Q1 2000Q1 1999Q1 1998Q1 1997Q1 1996Q1 1995Q1 1994Q1 1993Q1 1992Q1 1991Q1 1990Q1 Figure 2. Credit to US non-financial corporate sector (left hand panel) and changes in outstanding corporate bonds and loans to US non-financial corporate sector (right hand panel). The left panel is from US Flow of Funds, table L102. Right panel is from table F102. Loans in right panel are defined as sum of mortgages, bank loans not elsewhere classified (n.e.c.) and other loans. financing is the amount of commercial paper. While the loan series show the typical procyclical pattern of rising during the boom and then contracting sharply in the downturn, bond financing behaves very differently. On the right hand panel, we see that bond financing surges during the crisis period, making up most of the lost credit due to the contraction of loans. The subsitution away from intermediated credit toward the bond market is reminiscent of the finding in Kashyap, Stein and Wilcox (1993) who found that firms reacted to a tightening of credit by banks by issuing commercial paper. While commercial paper plays a relatively small role in the total quantity of credit in Figure 2, the principle that firms switch to alternatives to bank financing is very much in evidence. Nevertheless, the aggregate nature of the data from the Flow of Funds means that some caution is needed in drawing any firm conclusions. Several questions spring to mind. The Flow of Funds data are snapshots of the total amounts outstanding, rather than actual flows associated with new credit. Ideally, the evidence should be on the flow of new credit. Second, to tell us whether the shock is demand or supply-driven, information on the price of the new credit is crucial, but the Flow of Funds are silent on prices. A demanddriven fall in credit would exert less upward pressure on rates than a supply-driven shock. A simultaneous analysis of quantities and prices may enable to disentangle shocks to demand from shocks to supply. Third, the aggregate nature of the Flow of Funds data masks differences in the compo- 4
6 sition of firms, both over time and in cross-section. The variation over time may simply reflect changes in the number of firms operating in the market. In cross-section, we should take account of corporate financing decisions (debt versus equity, and loan versus bond financing) that are related to firm characteristics. To address these justified concerns, we construct a micro-level dataset on new loans and bonds issued by non-financial U.S. corporations between 1998 and Our dataset includes information about quantities and prices of new credit, which give us insights on whether the quantity changes are due to demand or supply shocks. Second, our dataset contains information on firm characteristics (asset size, Tobin s Q, tangibility, ratings, profitability, leverage, etc.) that previous studies have identified as drivers of the mix of loan and bond financing. The cross-section information give us another perspective on how credit supply affects firms corporate choices since we can control for demand-side proxies. Finally, we make use of the reported purpose of loan and bond issuances to single out new credit for real investment i.e. general corporate purposes, including capital expenditure, and liquidity management, see Ivashina and Scharfstein (2010) which allows us to focus on corporate real activities. By doing so, we exclude new debt that is issued for acquisitions (acquisition, takeover, and LBO/MBO), capital structure management (debt repayment, refinancing of existing debt, recapitalization, and stock repurchase), as well as credit lines usedascommercialpaperbackup. We examine new issuances across all firms in our sample and ask whether the features we observe in the aggregate also hold at the micro level. We find that they do. During the economic downturn of , the total amount of new issuances decreased by 50%. When we look at loans and bonds separately, we uncover a 75% decrease in loans but a two-fold increase in bonds. However, the cost of both types of financing show a steep increase (four-fold increase for new loans, and three-fold increase for bonds). We take this as evidence of an increase in demand of bond financing and a simultaneous contraction in banks supply of loan financing. To shed further light on firm-level substitution between loan and bond financing, we conduct further disaggregated tests to be detailed later. Our tests are for firms that have access to the bond market proxied by being rated so that we can allow the demand and supply factors to play out in the open. We find that new loan financing declines but new bond financing increases leaving total financing unchanged, while the cost of both loan and bond financing increases. Thus, the evidence points to a contraction in the 5
7 supply of bank credit that pushes firms into the bond market, which raises the price of both types of credit. The micro evidence therefore corroborates the aggregate evidence from the Flow of Funds. We conclude that the decline in the supply of bank financing trains the spotlight on those firms that do not have access to the bond market (such as the non-corporate businesses in Figure 1). It would be reasonable to conjecture that financial conditions tightened sharply for such firms. To understand the substitution between loan and bond financing better, we follow Denis and Mihov (2003) and Becker and Ivashina (2011) to examine the choice of bond versus loan issuance in a discrete choice framework following. Becker and Ivashina (2011) find evidence of substitution from loans to bonds during times of tight monetary policy, tight lending standards, high levels of non-performing loans, and low bank equity prices. Controlling for demand factors, we find that the crisis reduced the probability of obtaining a loan by 14%. We further corroborate the evidence in Becker and Ivashina (2011) by using two proxies for the financial sector risk-bearing capacity (the annual growth in broker-dealer leverage, see Adrian, Moench and Shin (2011), and the excess bond premium, see Gilchrist and Zakrajšek (2011)) and document that a contraction in intermediaries risk-bearing capacity reduces the probability of loan issuance between 15% and 42% depending on the proxy employed. Finally, we investigate whether firm characteristics mitigate (or dampen) the effect of bank credit supply during the crisis. Our analysis highlights that firms that are larger or have more tangible assets, higher credit ratings, better project quality, less growth opportunities, and lower leverage, were better equipped to withstand the contraction of credit during the crisis. 2.2 Modeling Financial Frictions Theevidencegivesinsightsonhowweshouldapproachmodelingfinancial frictions if we are to capture the observed features. Perhaps the three best-known workhorse models of financial frictions used in macroeconomics are Bernanke and Gertler (1989), Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) and Holmström and Tirole (1997). However, in the benchmark versions of these models, the creditor sector is competitive and the focus of the attention is on the borrower s net worth instead. The results from the benchmark versions of these models should be contrasted with the approach that places the borrowing constraints on the lender (i.e. the bank) as in Gertler and Kiyotaki (2011). Bernanke and Gertler (1989) use the costly state verification (CSV) approach to de- 6
8 rive the feature that the borrower s net worth determines the cost of outside financing. The collateral constraint in Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) introduces a similar role for the borrower s net worth through the market value of collateral assets whereby an increase in borrower net worth due to an increase in collateral value serves to increase borrower debt capacity. But in both cases, the lenders are treated as being competitive and no meaningful comparisons are possible between bank and bond financing. In contrast, the evidence from Figure 2 points to the importance of understanding the heterogeneity across lenders and the composition of credit. The role of the banking sector in the cyclical variation of credit emerges as being particularly important. A bank is simultaneously both a borrower and a lender it borrows in order to lend. As such, when the bank itself becomes credit-constrained, the supply of credit to the ultimate end-users of credit (non-financial businesses and households) will be impaired. In the version of the Holmström and Tirole (1997) model with banks, credit can flow either directly from savers to borrowers or indirectly through the banking sector. The ultimate borrowers face a borrowing constraint due to moral hazard, and must have a large enough equity stake in the project to receive funding. Banks also face a borrowing constraint imposed by depositors, but banks have the useful purpose of mitigating the moral hazard of ultimate borrowers through their monitoring. In Holmström and Tirole (1997), the greater monitoring capacity of banks eases the credit constraint for borrowers who would otherwise be shut out of the credit market altogether. Firms follow a pecking order of financing choices where small net worth firms can only obtain financing from banks and are shut out of the bond market, while firms with high net worth have access to both, but use the cheaper bond financing. Repullo and Suarez s (2000) model is in a similar spirit. Bolton and Freixas (2000) focus instead on the greater flexibility of bank credit in the face of shocks, as discussed by Berlin and Mester (1992), with the implication that firms with higher default probability favor bank finance relative to bonds. De Fiore and Uhlig (2011, 2012) explore the implications of the greater adaptability of bank financing to informational shocks in the spirit of Berlin and Mester (1992) and examine the shift toward greater reliance on bond financing in the Eurozone during the recent crisis. Our empirical results reported below suggest that the interaction between direct and intermediated finance should be high on the agenda for researchers. We review the new theoretical literature on banking and intermediationinalatersection. 7
9 Change in Equity & Changes in Debt (Billions) Investment Banks (1994Q1-2011Q2) y = x y = x Equity Debt Change in Assets (Billions) Figure 3. Scatter chart of {( )} and {( )} for changes in assets, equity and debt of US investment bank sector consisting of Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley between 1994Q1 and 2011Q2 (Source: SEC 10Q filings). 2.3 Focus on Banking Sector We are still left with a broader theoretical question of what makes the banking sector so special. In Kashyap, Stein and Wilcox (1993), the shock envisaged was a monetary tightening that hit the banking sector specifically through tighter reserve requirements that led to a shrinking of bank balance sheets. However, the downturn in was more widespread, hitting not only the banking sector but the broader economy. A clue lies in the way that banks manage their balance sheets. Figure 3 is the scatter plot of the quarterly change in total assets of the sector consisting of the five US investment banks examined in Adrian and Shin (2008, 2010) where we plot both the changes in assets against equity, as well as changes in assets against debt. More precisely, it plots {( )} and {( )} where is the change in total assets of the investment bank sector at quarter, andwhere and are the change in equity and change in debt of the sector, respectively. The fitted line through {( )} has slope very close to 1, meaning that the change in assets in any one quarter is almost all accounted for by the change in debt, while equity is virtually unchanged. The slope of the fitted line through the points 8
10 800 Commercial Banks (Call Reports) 1984Q1-2010Q2 Change in Equity & Changes in Debt (Billions) y = x y = x Equity Debt Change in Assets (Billions) Figure 4. Scatter chart of {( )} and {( )} for changes in assets, equity and debt of US commercial bank sector at between 1984Q1 and 2010Q2 (Source: FDIC call reports). {( )} is close to zero. 1 Commercial banks show a similar pattern to investment banks. Figure 4 is the analogous scatter plot of the quarterly change in total assets of the US commercial bank sector which plots {( )} and {( )} using the FDIC Call Reports. The sample period is between Q1:1984 and Q2:2010. We see essentially the same pattern as for investment banks, where every dollar of new assets is matched by a dollar in debt, with equity remaining virtually unchanged. Although we do not show here the scatter charts for individual banks, the charts for individual banks reveal the same pattern. Banks adjust their assets dollar for dollar through a change in debt with equity remaining sticky. The fact that banks tend to reduce debt during downturns could be explained by standard theories of debt overhang or adverse selection in equity issuance. However, what is notable in Figures 3 and 4 is the fact that banks do not issue equity even when assets are increasing. The fitted line through the debt issuance curve holds just as well when assets are increasing as it does when assets are decreasing. This feature presents 1 Notice that the slopes of the two fitted lines add up to 1 in Figure 3. This is a consequence of the balance sheet identity: = +, and the additivity of covariance. 9
11 Q DAssets Q Q DLeverage Figure 5. Scatter chart of quarterly asset growth and quarterly leverage growth of the US commercial bank sector, Q1: Q2:2010. Leverage is defined as the ratio of sector assets to sector equity, and growth is measured as log differences (Source: FDIC Call Reports). challenges to an approach where the bank capital constraint binds only in downturns, or to models where the banking sector is a portfolio maximizer. Figures 3 and 4 show that banks equity is little changed from one quarter to next, implying that total lending is closely mirrored by the bank s leverage decision. Bank lending expands when its leverage increases, while a sharp reduction in leverage ( deleveraging ) resultsinasharpcontractionoflending. Adrian and Shin (2008, 2010) showed that US investment banks have procyclical leverage where leverage and total assets are positively related. Figure 5 is the analogous scatter chart for US commercial banks plotting quarterly asset growth and quarterly leverage growth for the period Q1: Q2:2010. We see that leverage is procyclical for US commercial banks, also. However, we see that the sharp deleveraging in the recent crisis happened comparatively late, with the sharpest decline in assets and leverage taking place in Q1:2009. Even up to the end of 2008, assets and leverage were increasing, possibly reflecting the drawing down of credit lines that had been granted to borrowers prior to the crisis. The equity series in the scatter charts in Figures 3, 4 and 5 are of book equity, giving us the difference between the value of the bank s portfolio of claims and its liabilities. An 10
12 alternative measure of equity would have been the bank s market capitalization, which gives the market price of its traded shares. Since our interest is in the supply of credit, which has to do with the portfolio decision of the banks, book equity is the appropriate notion. Market capitalization would have been more appropriate if we were interested in new share issuance or mergers and acquisitions decisions. Crucially, it should be borne in mind that market capitalization is not the same thing as the marked-to-market value of the book equity, whichisthedifference between the market value of the bank s portfolio of claims and the market value of its liabilities. Take the example of a securities firm holding only marketable securities that finances those securities with repurchase agreements. Then, the book equity of the securities firm reflects the haircut on the repos, and the haircut will have to be financed with the firm s own book equity. This book equity is the archetypal example of the marked-to-market value of book equity. In contrast, market capitalization is the discounted value of the future free cash flows of the securities firm, and will depend on cash flows such as fee income that do not depend directly on the portfolio held by the bank. Since we are interested in lending decisions of intermediaries, it is the portfolio choice of the banks that is our main concern. As such, book value of equity is the appropriate concept when measuring leverage. Consistent with our choice of book equity as the appropriate notion of equity for lending decisions, Adrian, Moench and Shin (2011) find that market risk premiums depend on book leverage, rather than leverage definedinterms of market cap. The Scatter charts in Figures 3, 4 and 5 also suggest another important conceptual distinction. They suggest that we should be distinguishing between two different hypotheses for the determination of risk premiums. In particular, consider the following pair of hypotheses. Hypothesis 1. Risk premium depends on the net worth of the banking sector. Hypothesis 2. Risk premium depends on the net worth of the banking sector and the leverage of the banking sector. In most existing models of financial frictions, net worth is the state variable of interest. This is true even of those models that focus on the net worth of banking sector, such as 11
13 Gertler and Kiyotaki (2009). However, the scatter charts in Figures 3, 4 and 5 suggest that the leverage of the banks may be an important, separate factor in determining market conditions. Evidence from Adrian, Moench and Shin (2011) suggest that book leverage is indeed the measure that has stronger explanatory power for risk premiums in comparison to the level of net worth as such. The explicit recognition of the role of financial intermediaries holds some promise in explaining the economic impact of financial frictions. When intermediaries curtail lending, directly granted credit (such as bond financing) must substitute for bank credit, andmarketriskpremiumsmustriseinorderto induce non-bank investors to enter the market for risky corporate debt and take on a larger exposure to the credit risk of nonfinancial firms. The sharp increase in risk spreads during financial crises would be consistent with such a mechanism. The recent work of Gilchrist, Yankov and Zakrajsek (2009) and Gilchrist and Zakrajsek (2011) point to the importance of the credit risk premium as measured by the excess bond spreads (EBP) (i.e. spreads in excess of firm fundamentals) as an important predictor of subsequent economic activity as measured by industrial production or employment. Adrian, Moench, and Shin (2010, 2011) link credit risk premiums directly to financial intermediary balance sheet management, and real economic activity. Motivated by the initial evidence, we turn to an empirical study that uses micro-level data in Section 3. We will see that the aggregate evidence is confirmed in the micro-level data. After sifting through the evidence, we turn our attention to sketching out a possible model of direct and intermediated credit. Our model represents a departure from the standard practice of modeling financial frictions in two key respects. First, it departs from the practice of imposing a bank capital constraint that binds only in the downturn. Instead, the capital constraint in the model will bind all the time both in good times and bad. Second, our model is aimed at replicating the procyclicality of leverage where banks adjust their assets dollar for dollar through a change in debt, as revealed in the scatter plots above. Procyclicality of leverage runs counter to the common modeling assumption that banks are portfolio optimizers with log utility, implying that leverage is high in downturns (we review the literature in a later section). To the extent that banking sector behavior is a key driver of the observed outcomes, our focus will be on capturing the cyclical features of financial frictions as faithfully as we can. One feature of our model is that as bank lending contracts sharply through delever- 12
14 aging, the direct credit from bond investors must expand to take up the slack. However, for this to happen, prices must adjust in order that the risk premium rises sufficiently to induce risk-averse bond investors to make up for the lost banking sector credit. Thus, a fall in the relative credit supplied by the banking sector is associated with a rise in risk premiums. Financial frictions during the crisis of appear to have worked through the spike in spreads as well as through any contraction in the total quantity of credit. Having studied the microevidence in detail and the theory, we turn to a discussion of the recent macroeconomic modeling in section 5. We argue that the evidence presented in this paper presents a challenge for many of the post crisis general equilibrium models. Section 6 concludes. 3 Evidence from Micro Data 3.1 Sample We use micro level data to investigate the fluctuations in financing received by U.S. listed firms during the period , with special focus on the financial crisis. In our data analysis below, we will identify the eight quarters from Q3:2007 to Q2:2009 as the crisis period. Our sample consists of non-financial (SIC codes ) firms incorporated in the U.S. that lie in the intersection of the Compustat quarterly database, the Loan Pricing Corporation s Dealscan database (LPC) of new loans issued, and the Securities Data Corporation s New Bond Issuances database (SDC). For a firm to be included in our analysis, we require the firm-quarter observation in Compustat to have positive total assets (henceforth, Compustat sample), and have data available for its incremental financing from LPC and SDC. Our sample construction procedure, described below, identifies 3,896 firms (out of the 11,538 in the Compustat sample) with new financing between 1998 and Firm-quarter observations with new financing amount to 4% of the Compustat sample, and represent 13% of their total assets (see Table 1). Loan information comes from the June 2011 extract of LPC, and includes information on loan issuances (from the facility file: amount, issue date, type, purpose, maturity and cost 2 ) and borrowers (from the borrower file: identity, country, type, and public 2 We measure the cost of loans with the all-in drawn spread, which is defined as total (recurring fees plusinterest)spreadpaidover6monthliborforeachdollardrawndown. Onoccasions,wealsomake 13
15 Table 1. Frequency of new debt issuances. Compustat sample refers to all U.S. incorporated non-financial (SIC codes ) firm-quarters in the Compustat quarterly database with positive total assets. We merge the Compustat sample with loan issuances from the Loan Pricing Corporation s Dealscan database (LPC) and bond issuances from the Securities Data Corporation s New Bond Issuances database (SDC). Percentages of the Compustat sample are reported in square brackets. Total assets are expressed in January 1998 constant $bln. Firm-quarters Firms Observations Total Assets Compustat sample 308, ,472 11,538 [100] [100] [100] Our sample: -with new debt issuances 11,463 68,637 3,896 [3.72] [12.87] [33.77] -with new loan issuances 9,458 38,717 3,791 [3.07] [7.26] [32.86] -with new bond issuances 2,322 34, [0.75] [6.27] [7.82] status). We apply the following filters: 1) the issue date is between January 1998 and December 2010 (172,243 loans); 2) the loan amount, maturity, and cost are non-missing, and the loan type and purpose are disclosed (90,131 loans); 3) the loan is extended for real investment purposes 3 (42,979 loans). We then use the Compustat-LPC link provided by Michael Roberts (Chava and Roberts 2008) to match loan information with the Compustat sample, and end up with 12,373 loans issued by 3,791 unique firms. 4 Our screening of bond issuances follows similar steps to the ones we use for loan use of the all-in undrawn spread as a measure of the cost a borrower pays for each dollar available (but not drawn down) under a credit line. Bradley and Roberts (2004) and Strahan (1999) contain further details on how LPC computes spreads. 3 Loan financing may be intended for a variety of purposes. Stated purposes (based on the LPC field primary purpose ) can be broadly grouped into M&A (acquisition, takeover, LBO/MBO), refinancing/capital structure management (debt repayment, recapitalization, and stock repurchase), liquidity management (working capital and trade finance), and general corporate purposes (corporate purposes and capital expenditure); credit lines may also serve as commercial paper backup (see, among others, Drucker and Puri (2009) for a classification of loan purposes). Following Ivashina and Scharfstein (2010) we consider as real investment loans those used for general corporate purposes and liquidity management. Specifically, we define as real investment loans those with LPC primary purpose Capital expenditure, Corporate purposes, Equipment purchase, Infrastructure, Realestate, Tradefinance, or Working capital. After merging LPC with Compustat the vast majority of loan facilities in our final sample are extended for corporate purposes (7,029 issuances, corresponding to 56.81% of our sample) or working capital (4,971 issuances, 40.18% of our sample). 4 The May 2010 linking table provided by Michael Roberts enables us to match 11,765 loans with our Compustat sample; we further link 608 loans issued in We match a loan (and a bond) issued in a given quarter with Compustat data for the same quarter. 14
16 issuances. We retrieve from SDC information on non-financial firms bond issuances (amount, issue date, cost 5, purpose, and maturity) and apply the following filters: 1) the issue date is between January 1998 and December 2010, and the borrower is a nonfinancial U.S. firm (38,953 bonds); 2) the bond amount, maturity, purpose and cost are non-missing (9,706 bonds); 3) the bond is issued for real investment purposes 6 (7,480 bonds). We then merge bond information with the Compustat sample using issuer CUSIPs, and obtain 3,222 bonds issued by 902 unique firms. The summary statistics in Table 2 compare our restricted sample to the full sample of loans and bonds issued for investment purposes. In particular, our sample includes 79% of loans issued by non-private U.S. corporations for investment purposes, and represents 87% in terms of dollar amount. Moreover, our sample captures 50% of U.S. non-financial public firms and subsidiaries bond issuances for investment purposes (about 57% in terms of dollar amount). On average, loans in our sample are issued for $239 mln, have maturity of 43 months, and are priced at 217 bps above the reference rate (32 bps above for credit lines). These are economically very similar to the average values in the full LPC sample. Relative to loans, bonds in our sample are on average issued for larger amounts ($326 mln), longer maturities (100 months), and are more expensive (266 bps). Again, these values are very similar to their counterpart in the full SDC sample. The t-test for the difference in means detects significant differences between our sample and full LPC and SDC samples for the average issuance amount only. 3.2 Patterns of new issuances The pattern of total new credit that includes both loan and bond financing shows a marked decline in new debt issuances and a simultaneous increase in their cost during the recent financial crisis Total financing The evolution of total credit (both loans and bonds) presented in Figure 6 shows a marked decrease in total amount and number of issuances from peak to trough. This can be seen 5 We measure the cost of bonds with the spread to benchmark, which is defined by SDC as the number of basis points over the comparable maturity treasury. Our results are qualitatively unchanged if we measure the cost of bonds subtracting the 6 month LIBOR (in local currency) from the yield to maturity. 6 Mirroring our classification of loans, we define a real investment bond as having SDC primary use Buildings, Capital expenditures, Construction, General corporate purpose, Property development, Railways, Working capital. 15
17 Table 2. Characteristics of new issuances. This table presents means aggregated across all firms for our sample of new debt issuances. Full LPC sample includes tranches with valid amount, maturity, purpose and spread issued by non-private U.S. corporations for investment purposes. Full SDC sample includes tranches with valid amount, maturity, purpose and spread issued by non-financial U.S. public firms and subsidiaries for investment purposes. We report the t-statistic for the unpaired t-test for differences in amounts, maturities, and spreads between our sample and the full samples. For loan issuances, Spread is the all-in-drawn spread and undrawn is the all-in-undrawn spread (available for credit lines only). There are 7,782 (resp. 8,817) issuances with non-missing undrawn spread in our sample (resp. Full LPC sample). Amount is expressed in January 1998 constant $bln, maturity is expressed in months, and spread is expressed in bps (relative to the reference rate). Loan issuances Bond issuances Our Full LPC t-stat Our Full SDC t-stat sample sample sample sample Issuances # 12,373 15,736 3,222 6,435 Amount Total 2, , , , Amount *** *** Maturity Spread * Spread (undrawn) from Panel A, which graphs the quarterly total amount of new debt (loans plus bonds) issued expressed in billions of January 1998 dollars, with Panel C showing the averages. Panel E graphs the total number of new debt issuances. Due to seasonality in new debt financing activity, we include the smoothed version of all series (solid line) as a moving average straddling the current term with two lagged and two forward terms. Figure 6 highlights the steep reduction in total financing as the crisis unfolds; total credit halved from $ billions in Q2:2007, the peak of the credit boom, to $90.65 billions during Q2:2009, the trough of the crisis. During the same period, the number of new issuances decreases by about 30%. We turn to the cost of credit and its maturity. For every quarter, we use a weighted average of the spread over the base rate (in bps) and the maturity (in months) of individual facilities, where the weights are given by the amount of each facility relative to the amount of issuances in that quarter. Figure 6-Panel B shows that the cost of new debt quadrupled during the crisis, from 99bps in Q2:2007 to 403bps in Q2:2009. With our datasets we cannot determine whether a credit line, after being extended, is indeed used. However, Campello, Giambona, Graham and Harvey (2011) show that firms drew down on their lines during the crisis, which suggests that the all-in-drawn spread 16
18 Panel A: Total amount Panel B: Cost bln USD bp s Time Time bln USD Panel C: Average amount bp s Panel D: Cost (crisis=undrawn) Time Time Panel E: Number mo nths Panel F: Maturity Time Time Figure 6. New debt issuances. Panel A: total amount of debt issued (billion of January 1998 USD). Panels B and D: cost of debt issued (in bps). In Panel D we use the all-in-undrawn spread for credit lines between Q3:2007 and Q2:2009. Panel C: average amount of debt issued. Panel E: number of debt issuances. Panel F: maturity of debt issued (in months). All panels report the raw series (dashed line) and its smoothed version (solid line). is indeed the proper measure of the cost of revolvers during the crisis. An alternative measure the cost of loans by using the all-in-undrawn spread for revolvers, is shown in Figure 6-Panel D. Even here, we uncover a steep increase in the cost of new financing during the crisis, which tripled relative to pre-crisis levels (331bps during Q2:2009) Loan financing Bank financing was drastically reduced during the crisis; loan issuance at the trough of the cycle totaled $40 billion, about one quarter of loan issuance at the peak of the credit boom ($ billions during Q2:2007). The number of new loans more than halved from 318 issuances during Q2:2007 to 141 issuances during Q2:2009. This reduction in bank lending can be seen in Figure 7, which presents the quarterly evolution of loan issuances. The total amount of loans are in Panel A; the average amount of loans are in Panel C; and the total number of loans issued are in Panel E. 17
19 In parallel with the decline in loan issuance, the cost of bank financing rose steeply. Loan spreads more than quadrupled during the financial crisis, from 90bps in Q2:2007 to a peak of 362bps in Q2: The 2001 recession did not show such a substantial increase in loan spreads; spreads oscillated between 128bps (Q2:2001) and 152bps (Q4:2001). Figure 7-Panel B graphs these results for the cost of bank borrowing. Maturities of newly issued loans tend to shorten during recessions, and increase during booms, as can be seen from Panel D in Figure 7. Finally, in Figure 7-Panel F we graph the quarterly total amount of loan by type 8 (credit lines or term loans). In the aftermath of the credit boom, both revolvers and term loans fell sharply. New credit lines totaled $24.15 billions in Q2:2009, which is roughly 25% of the credit lines initiated at the peak of the credit boom ($ during Q2:2007). New term loans halved from $30.05 billions in Q2:2007 to $15.68 billions in Q2:2009. Issuances of credit lines start trending upwards from 2010 and, as of Q4:2010, total credit lines correspond to about 40% of their dollar values at the peak of the credit boom. Issuances of term loans increase at a slower pace, and during Q4:2010 reach about 25% of their Q2:2007 levels Bond financing In contrast to bank lending, bond issuance increased during the crisis; issuance of new bonds totaled $50.64 billion in Q2:2009 about twice as much as during the peak of the credit boom ($26.56 billion during Q2:2007). This can be seen in Figure 8. In addition, the number of newly issued bonds doubles from 54 during Q2:2007 to 116 during Q2:2009. Moreover, Figure 8 confirms that the credit boom in the run-up to the crisis was not exclusively a bank credit boom, since total bond issuances increase from 2005 onwards also. Figure 8 graphs the evolution of the cost and maturity of bonds (Panel B and D, respectively). Several similarities emerge between loan and bond financing. First, bond maturities shorten during recessions and increase during booms; this is confirmed by comparing maturities during the years leading to the peak of the credit boom to maturities during the latest recession. Second, the credit boom preceding the recent 7 If we used the all-in-undrawn spread for revolvers during the financial crisis, the cost of bank financing would more than double to 215bps during Q2: Our type split (revolvers and term loans) covers 97% of all loans in our sample, which is why the sum of loan types does not add to total loan financing in Figure 7-Panel A. Loans that are not classified include bridge loans, delay draw term loans, synthetic leases, and other loans. 18
20 Panel A: Total amount Panel B: Cost bln USD bp s Time Time Panel C: Average amount Panel D: Maturity bln USD mo nths Time Time Panel E: Number bln USD Panel F: Total amount (by type) Time Time Figure 7. New loan issuances. Panel A: total amount of loans issued (billion of January 1998 USD). Panel B: cost of loans issued (in bps). Panel C: average amount of loans issued. Panel D: maturity of loans issued (in months). Panel E: number of loans issued. Panel F: total amount of credit lines (dotted) and term loans (solid). All panels report the raw series (dashed line) and its smoothed version (solid line). financial crisis is accompanied by a reduction inspreads. Finally,bondspreadsalmost tripled during the financial crisis, from 156bps during Q2:2007 to 436bps during Q2:2009, similar to the increase experienced by bank financing. The micro evidence permits two conclusions. First, we confirm the evidence from the Flow of Funds that non-financial corporations increased funding in the bond market, as bank loans shrank. Secondly, credit spreads increased sharply, for both bank loans and bonds. In the next two sections, we will investigate the extent to which the substitution from bank financing to bond financing is related to institutional characteristics. Kashyap, Stein, and Wilcox (1993) showed that following monetary tightening, nonfinancial corporations tended to issue relatively more commercial paper. The authors link this substitution in external financedirectlytomonetarypolicyshocks,andarguethatthe evidence supports the lending channel of monetary policy over the traditional Keynesian 19
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2015 Chrysler 200SPosted on August 8th, 2014
Midsize sedan is stylish and value-packed
By Nina Russin
Midsize sedans comprise the largest and most competitive segment in the passenger car market. Those who want to lead the pack need to bring their A-games and take no prisoners.
When Chrysler product planners began work on the 2015 200, they started with a clean sheet of paper, leaving any references to the former Sebring or 200 models in the rearview mirror. From its muscular exterior to a standard nine-speed automatic transmission, the midsize sedan doesn't compromise on style or performance.
The 2015 model is also eminently affordable, with the base car starting at under $22,000 excluding the $995 destination charge. There are four grades: LX, Limited, S and C. All-wheel drive is an alternative to the standard front-wheel drive configuration on S and C cars.
There are two available engines: a 2.4-liter Tigershark four-cylinder rated at 184-horsepower, the same 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 that also appears in the Jeep Grand Cherokee, producing 295-horsepower.
The test car is the sporty S grade with the 2.4-liter Tigershark engine and nine-speed automatic, priced from $24,495. Options include a convenience group that adds automatic climate control, heated steering wheel, rear backup camera and heated front seats, navigation with Uconnect, a driver information display, satellite radio, real time weather and traffic updates, blind spot obstacle detection and a premium lighting group that includes high intensity discharge headlamps and daytime running lamps. Final MSRP, including destination is $29,170.
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When I test drove the Chrysler 200 at a media preview in Louisville, Kentucky last spring, I spent most of my time in the six-cylinder model. It was kismet that I got the four-cylinder car this time, so I could better assess its performance.
The advantage of the 2.4-liter engine over the six-cylinder is fuel economy. The Tigershark engine averages 36 mpg on the highway according to the EPA. The nine-speed automatic transmission provides large overdrive gears to maximize gas mileage.
My concern was that the engine might feel anemic, especially on the section of my drive route that included some significant elevation gains.
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My overall impression of the Chrysler 200 was as favorable as my first drive six months back. The car is quiet and solid. The powertrain is a bargain for the money. The engine is chain as opposed to belt driven, saving the driver from the expensive timing belt replacement service at 60,000 miles. I like the fact that advanced safety features such as blind spot monitoring are available on a sedan priced under $30,000.
Electric power steering has pretty good on-center response, with a pleasantly heavy feel on the highway. The turning circle is 39.8 feet. That isn't great, but drivers should be able to perform the occasional U-turn on wider suburban thoroughfares.
The sedan's four-wheel independent suspension does a good job of absorbing bumps in the road, but is not overly soft. When I drove aggressively through a winding section of the two-lane Bush Highway in the Superstition Mountain foothills, the chassis stayed flat and in control.
Four-wheel disc brakes stop the sedan in firm, linear fashion.
My only complaint about the car is the thickness and location of the A pillars. They obstruct the driver's view in the front corners of the car. It's not a huge issue in an area such as Phoenix, Arizona because there are few trees and tall buildings to obstruct visibility at an intersection.
But it was noticeable in the Midwest. I had to inch through an intersection in a thickly wooded area because I had problems seeing the vehicles to my left and right.
Upscale interior
Chrysler has made quantum leaps in interior design, fit and finish over the past decade. The new 200 is no exception, with materials and features that make the sedan seem like a more expensive car than it actually is.
Keyless entry and start on the test car saves the driver from fumbling for his key fob. Once inside, all controls are easy to reach and intuitive to operate.
A rotary dial controls the transmission, and takes up less room on the center console than a traditional shift lever. I found both the center stack screen and gauge cluster easy to read in a variety of lighting conditions.
The driver's seat was quite comfortable for the two-hour test drive, with plenty of lower lumbar support. Rear seats are smaller and have less legroom than in the front row, but should be fine for smaller adults and kids.
A generous sized trunk holds groceries, luggage and smaller camping supplies. Cyclists will be better served with a midsized crossover such as the new Jeep Cherokee.
Standard safety
The Chrysler 200 comes with front, side, side curtain, driver and front passenger knee airbags, antilock brakes, stability control, traction control and tire pressure monitoring.
The factory warranty covers all powertrain repairs due to manufacturing defects for up to five years or 100,000 miles: whichever comes first. The warranty also includes complimentary roadside assistance for up to five years or 100,000 miles.
The 2015 200 sedan is on display at Chrysler dealerships nationwide.
Like: A stylish midsize sedan with good power and excellent fuel economy thanks to the nine-speed automatic transmission.
Dislike: Thick A pillars obstruct the driver's view in the front corners.
Quick facts:
Make: Chrysler
Model: 200S
Year: 2015
Base price: $24,495
As tested: $29,170
Horsepower: 184 Hp @ 6250 rpm
Torque: 173 lbs.-ft. @ 4600 rpm
Zero-to-sixty: N/A
Antilock brakes: Standard
Side curtain airbags: Standard
First aid kit: N/A
Bicycle friendly: No
Off-road: No
Towing: No
Fuel economy: 23/36 mpg city/highway
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