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 …

Using a framework of volatile markets Emerging Market Bank Lending and Credit Risk Control covers the theoretical and … practical foundations of contemporary credit risk with implications for bank management. Drawing a direct connection between …. Chapters include summaries, review questions, references, and endnotes. *Emphasizes bank credit risk issues peculiar to …

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 …