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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...
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We study the relationship between bank lending standards, loan growth and the business cycle in the euro area and the US within a vector error correciton model using Bayesian estimation methods. To deal with the short data series available for the euro area, we exploit information from the...
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institutional feature of the Italian credit market that generates a sharp discontinuity in the allocation of comparable firms into … credit risk categories. Using loan-level data, we show that during the expansionary phase of the cycle, banks relax lending … the cycle, the abrupt tightening of lending standards leads to the exclusion of substandard firms from credit. These firms …
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