business lending during the global financial crisis. The decline in business credit was driven by increased risk overhang … elasticities suggestive of credit rationing (consistent with an increase in lender risk aversion). Nevertheless, we identify a …

Banks increasingly recognize the need to measure and manage the credit risk of their loans on a portfolio basis. We … for banks to systematically identify regional and industrial credit concentrations and reduce the detected concentrations … through diversification. In recent years, the development of markets for credit securitization and credit derivatives has …

Theory of financial intermediation gives contradicting answers to the question whether …

The Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) has been the cornerstone of the asset allocation for over 40 years. In the past …, such as the recent sub-prime crisis. The proposed Leveraged Portfolio Theory (LPT) removes the most fundamental axiom of … becomes an endogenous variable, resulting from the supply/demand equilibrium in credit markets. The resulting model leads to …

between bank credit and firm-level productivity in the context of different financial markets set-ups, we introduce a model of … overlapping generations of entrepreneurs under complete and incomplete credit markets. Then, we exploit firm-level data for a … group of European countries to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main predictions of …