Increasingly Networked Lenders and Impact on Lending Spreads

There are two datasets here related to the syndication market (1) bank level spreads, bank level characteristics (2) deal level spreads and characteristics. The key variable is "connections" - which captures the number of unique connections (per year) in the syndication network. In our research, we test for the impact of connections against spreads, both at the lender-bank level, as well as the deal level.