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Assessing the risk-return trade-off in loans portfolios
Mencía, Javier - Banco de España - 2009
This paper analyses the risk and return of loans portfolios in a joint setting. I develop a model to obtain the distribution of loans returns. I use this model to describe the investment opportunity set of lenders using mean-variance analysis with a Value at Risk constraint. I also obtain closed...
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Why do spanish firms rarely use the bankruptcy system? The role of the mortgage institution
García-Posada, Miguel; Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S. - Banco de España - 2012
the Spanish bankruptcy system relative to that of an alternative insolvency institution, the mortgage system, and the …
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Insolvency institutions and efficiency: the Spanish case
García-Posada, Miguel - Banco de España - 2013
, namely the mortgage system, mean that firms and their creditors mainly deal with credit provision and eventual insolvency … through the latter. However, in order to use the mortgage system, some firms must overinvest in capital assets (real estate …, equipment) since those are the assets that can be pledged as mortgage collateral. This overinvestment leads to productive …
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Are there alternatives to bankruptcy? a study of small business distress in Spain
García-Posada, Miguel; Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S. - Banco de España - 2013
main alternative procedure, the mortgage foreclosure; (ii) personal bankruptcy law is unattractive to the individual debtor …
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Estimation of Regulatory Credit Risk Models
Montes, Carlos Pérez - Banco de España - 2013
This article estimates a general credit risk model with both macroeconomic and latent credit factors for Spanish banks during the period 2004-2010. The proposed framework allows to estimate with bank level data both the standard credit risk model of Basel II and generalized models. I fi nd...
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Collateral, type of lender and relationship banking as determinants of credit risk
Jiménez, Gabriel; Saurina, Jesús - Banco de España - 2004
This paper analyses the determinants of the probability of default (PD) of bank loans. We focus the discussion on the role of a limited set of variables (collateral, type of lender and bank borrower relationship) while controlling for the other explanatory variables. The study uses information...
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Credit cycles, credit risk, and prudential regulation
Jiménez, Gabriel; Saurina, Jesús - Banco de España - 2005
This paper finds strong empirical support of a positive, although quite lagged, relationship between rapid credit growth and loan losses. Moreover, it contains empirical evidence of more lenient credit terms during boom periods, both in terms of screening of borrowers and in collateral...
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Modeling the distribution of credit losses with observable and latent factors
Jiménez, Gabriel; Mencía, Javier - Banco de España - 2007
This paper develops a flexible and computationally efficient model to estimate the credit loss distribution of the loans in a banking system. We consider a sectorial structure, where default frequencies and the total number of loans are allowed to depend on macroeconomic conditions as well as on...
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How Does Competition Impact Bank Risk-Taking?
Jiménez, Gabriel; Lopez, Jose A.; Saurina, Jesús - Banco de España - 2010
A common assumption in the academic literature is that franchise value plays a key role in limiting bank risk-taking. As market power is the primary source of franchise value, reduced competition in banking markets has been seen as promoting banking stability. We test this hypothesis using data...
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Retirement patterns of couples in Europe
Hospido, Laura; Zamarro, Gema - Banco de España - 2013
In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular, we test whether women’s (men’s) transitions out of the labor force are causally related to the actual realization of their...
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