Our paper addresses firm size as a driver of systematic credit risk in loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Key contributions are the use of a unique data set of SME lending by over 400 German banks and relating systematic risk to the size dependence of regulatory capital requirements....

Introduction to Credit Risk and Capital Management Frameworks -- Credit Data and Processing -- Credit Modeling Techniques -- Allowance for Credit Loss and CECL -- Capital Management and Risk Weighted Asset -- Stress Test and CCAR -- Underwriting and Credit Scoring.

I investigate whether bank exposures to sovereign debt during the European debt crisis affected the real economy. I show a shock to the marked-to-market (MTM) value of bank exposures to sovereign debt led to credit tightening in 2010–2011 that had negative real effects on small and young...