’s dynamics. Chapters discuss the role of bank lending in firms’ financing during the recent financial crisis, as well as issues …Chapter 1) Bank-firm relationship: (how) did it change with the financial crisis? -- Chapter 2) Credit risk assessment …: the internal rating systems -- Chapter 3) Credit guarantees: the role in bank lending -- Chapter 4) Banks, firms and …

highlight weak macro-economic conditions, lax bank supervision and individual bank weakness as the key factors …

1 Work-out: holistic active management of NPL -- 2 The bad bank and the good banking -- 3 The work-out value chain … single bank and the system-wide level. Ultimately, credit workout is defined as a core capability for any competitive bank …

From the onset of the 2007-2009 crisis, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have aggressively lowered … has partial control over bank regulation it can exercise regulatory lenience. Two, the Fed's stronger output orientation …

estimated while controlling for the macroeconomic environment. An increase in bank' balance sheet risk is shown to increase the …

This paper addresses the trade-off between additional loss-absorbing capacity and potentially higher bank risk …