We develop a novel technique to decompose banks' ratio of nonperforming loans to total loans into two components: first, a minimum ratio that represents best-practice lending given the volume and composition of a bank's loans, the average contractual interest rate charged on these loans, and...

The relation between Sen's decomposition of the weak axiom of revealed preferences (WARP), and WARP directional decomposition introduced in Nosratabadi (2017) is investigated. It is argued that the latter generalizes the former. A pairwise transitive WARP decomposition consistent with Sen's...

Capital flow volatility is a concern for macroeconomic and financial stability. Nonetheless, literature is scarce in this topic. Our paper sheds light on this issue in two dimensions. First, using quarterly data for 33 emerging markets and developing economies over the period 1970Q1-2016Q4, we...