The study examines the bank-specific determinants of sovereign bond holdings and how such holdings affect bank lending of the banking market in Vietnam. Using annual financial data of commercial banks from 2007 to 2018 and alternative regression techniques for both dynamic and static models, we...

We investigate how funding liquidity affects the bank lending using a large sample of US bank holding companies. We document a consistent evidence of a lower loan growth for banks that rely more on deposits. The quantile regressions which dissect the lending behavior of banks at the right tail...

Asymmetries in the Vietnamese lending central bank's policy-related rate spread were documented. Empirical results revealed that the spread adjusts to the threshold faster when the central bank's policy-related rates decrease relative to the lending rates than when the central bank's...

The study empirically examines the impact of bank diversification on monetary policy transmission through the bank lending channel. Based on monetary and bank-level data from 2008 to 2018 in Vietnam, a diverse environment of monetary policy tools, results show that bank diversification...

The paper examines how loan portfolio diversification drives bank returns, mainly focusing on the conditioning roles of business models and market power in this nexus. We employ a sample of Vietnamese commercial banks from 2008 to 2019 to perform regressions in the dynamic panel models with the...

The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of bank capital, bank liquidity level and credit risk on the profitability of commercial banks in the postcrisis period between 2011 and 2017 in Asian developed economies in comparison with the USA banking industry. The findings show that...

We investigate the impact of interest and non-interest products and services on the margin a bank can derive from a specific customer. The analysis is based on 4,277 observations of relationships between small cooperative banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Finland from 2001 to...

The objective of this paper is to develop a methodology to calculate expected credit loss (ECL) using a transparent-modularised approach utilising three components: probability of default (PD), loss given default (LGD) and exposure at default (EAD). The proposed methodology is described by first...

Institutional factors that enhance the quality of financial reporting and sharing of credit information can alleviate informational gaps between contracting parties and improve loan contract terms. Using cross-country data on syndicated loans, we find that the cost of debt financing is lower for...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate determinants of non-performing loans in the Middle East and North Africa region by exploring the role of bank-specific and macroeconomic factors, particularly in the period of the global financial crisis, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, as a...