This paper analyses the impact of lending standards for residential real estate (RRE) loans on default rates, using a novel loan-level dataset from the European DataWarehouse (EDW) that covers eight euro area countries. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this paper is the first to use, for...

This paper extends what we know about loss given default (LGD) by examining a newly available dataset on commercial real estate (CRE) loan losses. These data come from 295 failed banks resolved by the FDIC using loss-share agreements between 2008 and 2013. We examine over 14,000 distressed CRE...