The agency structure of loan syndicates

Financial Review

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 227-245

  François, Pascal ^a   Missonier Piera, Franck ^b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b ESSEC Business School   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bank specialization; Co agents; G21; Loan syndication; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749142212     PISSN: 07328516     EISSN: 15406288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6288.2007.00169.x     Document Type: Article

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