Abstract

This study conducts a citation-based comprehensive systematic literature review (SLR) of the syndicated loan market by identifying and recognizing the sources of knowledge-producing leading articles, journals and authors in this area. In total, we present a citation analysis of 374 articles from the Scopus database using a comprehensive list of keyword searches. We find that the importance of research using syndicated loan data has increased after the global financial crisis (GFC). It is perhaps due to the reason that the GFC was mainly a credit crisis that sparked the interest of research in this area. We identify the Journal of Financial Economics as the leading journal in terms of citation and the Journal of Banking and Finance in terms of publication count. Victoria Ivashina comes out as the leading author in terms of the citation count and Anthony Saunders in terms of publication count. We also perform a content analysis of the top 100 most cited papers and identify data characteristics, major themes, estimation techniques and empirical approaches. Our SLR provides a macro picture of research on syndicated loan studies. Finally, we provide an overview of the direction for future research.

中文翻译：

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银团贷款：绘制趋势、来源和知识演变

摘要

本研究通过识别和识别该领域知识产生的领先文章、期刊和作者的来源，对银团贷款市场进行基于引文的全面系统文献综述（SLR）。总的来说，我们使用全面的关键词搜索列表对 Scopus 数据库中的 374 篇文章进行了引文分析。我们发现，全球金融危机（GFC）后，使用银团贷款数据进行研究的重要性有所增加。或许正是由于全球金融危机主要是一场信用危机，才引发了这方面的研究兴趣。我们将《金融经济学杂志》视为引用次数领先的期刊，将《银行与金融杂志》视为发表数量领先的期刊。维多利亚·伊瓦什娜 (Victoria Ivashina) 是引用次数方面的主要作者，安东尼·桑德斯 (Anthony Saunders) 是发表次数方面的主要作者。我们还对被引用次数最多的 100 篇论文进行内容分析，并确定数据特征、主要主题、估计技术和实证方法。我们的 SLR 提供了银团贷款研究的宏观图景。最后，我们概述了未来的研究方向。