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Chinese banks likely have more non-performing loans (NPLs) than officially reported. As hidden NPLs earn no interest income, loan quality problems may erode the gross interest income of banks. Using stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the interest income of a hypothetical...
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Benford's law states that the leading significant digits in real-world data sets, provided the data span several orders of magnitude, are not normally uniformly distributed. Deviations from this law may indicate human intervention, even fraud. The data on Chinese banks' non-performing loans has...
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This study explores the impact of relationship banking on the financial constraints and loan conditions of small and … medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China. Our research contributes to the literature in several ways. First, we examine both … the financial costs and loan benefits associated with SME relationship banking, extending the scope of existing literature …
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This paper examines how non-performing loans (NPLs) affect Chinese commercial banks before, during, and after the 2008 global financial crisis as well as the subsequent 2008—2010 stimulus. By accounting for NPLs as undesirable outputs, banks' technical efficiency is estimated using directional...
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Ever since the late 1990s, China has experienced explosive growth in consumer lending, especially in short … technology. On the other hand, China does not have a universal credit scoring and registration system that can guide lenders … registration and scoring system utilizing online digital footprints, so that more people in China can have better access to the …
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This paper examines the structure and the main characteristics of the Chinese banking industry. In particular, the …
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We provide evidence that a weak banking sector has contributed to low productivity growth following the European …
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In this paper, utilising the endogenous growth model, we assess the joint long-run determination of economic growth by non-performing loans (NPLs) and by other factors that include bank credit to the economy, gross secondary school enrolment, government expenditure growth rate and the inflation...
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In the traditional banking model, loans play a dominant role in banks’ operations. Loan portfolio quality is the main … the banking system of the Republic of Macedonia for the period 2007- 2015. This analysis presents the correlation and …
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Past financial crises and recessions have revealed the importance of the economy’s condition for the loan quality. Macroeconomic determinants of the non-performing loans have been attracting considerable attention in recent years. The aim of this paper is to organize and summarize studies...
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