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This paper proposes a credit scoring model for the empirical assessment of default risk drivers of shipping bank loans …. A unique dataset, consisting of the credit portfolio of a ship-lending bank is used to estimate a logit model with two …
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The role that banks play in screening and monitoring their borrowers is well understood. However, these bank activities are costly and unobservable, thus difficult to contract upon. This introduces the possibility of shirking and leads to the question – who monitors the monitor? Financial...
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We examine the multi-faceted effect of creditor rights on the way banks monitor, operate and finance themselves. We present a simple analytical model that shows that a strengthening of creditor rights reduces the need for banks to monitor their borrowers; and that banks, as a result, tilt their...
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This paper examines the determinants of European bank risk-taking during major financial crisis. Using a sample of banks from 26 countries over the period 2005–2015, we examine the nature of the relationship between bank risk, bank characteristics, regulatory, institutional and macroeconomic...
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We investigate the U.S. experience with macroprudential policies by studying the interagency guidance on leveraged lending. We find that the guidance primarily impacted large, closely supervised banks, but only after supervisors issued important clarifications. It also triggered a migration of...
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Using a unique data set on German banks' loans to the German real economy, we investigate banks' credit risk. This data … the period 2003-2011 yields the following results: (i) Beyond the nationwide credit loss rate, industry composition, and … regional factors, the loans' maturity structure is found to drive the bank-wide loss rates in the credit portfolio. (ii) The …
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Current empirical methods to identify and assess the impact of bank credit supply shocks rely strictly on multi … economy and most prone to credit supply shocks. We propose and underpin an alternative demand control (using industry …-location-size-time fixed effects) that allows identifying timevarying cross-sectional bank credit supply shocks using both single- and multi …
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We investigate the impact of the 2014 Interagency Clarification on the leverage risk premium for bank- and nonbank-originated loans. Using a novel dataset from 2011 to 2019, we show that leveraged loan spreads have declined rapidly for nonbank facilities relative to bank facilities since the...
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