Cyclicality in the losses of bank loans is important for bank risk management. Because loans have a different risk profile than bonds, evidence of cyclicality in bond losses need not apply to loans. Based on unique data we show that the default rate and loss given default of bank loans share a...

Using a unique data set on companies' defaults provided by a consortium of 31 banks, this paper gives new insights into the determinants of the workout-loss-given-default (W-LGD): losses based on the cash flows observed between the default and the resolution times.As between 1997 and 2010, 18%...

This paper extends what we know about loss given default (LGD) on commercial loans by studying certain types of these loans that have been excluded from previous research but that may be more representative of loans held by small and mid-sized banks. We use a newly available dataset on...