Credit spreads in the market for highly leveraged transaction loans

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 22, Issue 10-11, 1998, Pages 1249-1282

  Angbazo, Lazarus A ^b   Mei, Jianping ^b   Saunders, Anthony ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Debt; G21; High yield bands; Leverage; Loans; Yield spread

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009752224     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4266(98)00065-X     Document Type: Article

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