and bank managers to minimize the size of non-performing loans. After examining 82 banks from US, Europe, Asia and Africa … predictive power of each bank-specific factor (excluding loan diversification), regulatory variable and macroeconomic indicator …

debt in China, and the corresponding burden on banks of impaired assets. It finds that such techniques can play a role, but …

-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Asia. Owing to their significance to national economies, it is important to find ways to provide SMEs with … guarantees a portion (ratio) of a loan provided by a bank to an SME. This research provides a theoretical model and an empirical … minimizing the bank's nonperforming loans to SMEs, and at the same time fulfill the government policies for supporting SMEs. Our …

model, we assess the determinants of the evolution of bankspecific NPLs in Asia and find that macroeconomic conditions and … bank-specific factors - such as rapid credit growth and excessive bank lending - contribute to the buildup of NPLs. Further …, a panel vector autoregression analysis of macrofinancial implications of NPLs in emerging Asia offers significant …

Background: This study analyzes the impact of non-performing loans (NPLs) on bank liquidity creation to investigate the …

. A threshold panel regression model has been applied to the data of 87 commercial banks in China from 2006 to 2012. The …