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The impact of strong emotions or mood on decision making and risk taking is well recognized in behavioral economics and … 2009. Bank loan inefficiency is derived using both a standard stochastic frontier production approach for bank loans and a … explaining the variation of gross loans. -- bank loan inefficiency ; weather conditions ; panel VAR ; causality ; US banking …
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An issue that has not been dealt in the literature refers to the relationship between bank loan efficiency and weather … between weather and bank loan efficiency, using a panel data set that includes 69 banks operating in the US spanning the … period 1999 to 2009. Bank loan inefficiency is derived using a stochastic frontier production approach. We also estimate …
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Using data for Chinese commercial banks from 2000 to 2014, this paper examines the effects of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on banks’ credit risks and lending decisions. The results reveal significantly positive connections among EPU and non-performing loan ratios, loan concentrations and...
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We investigate how communication within banks affects small-business lending. Using travel time between a bank's headquarters and its branches to proxy for the costs of communicating soft information, we exploit shocks to these travel times to evaluate the impact of within bank communication...
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This paper empirically investigates how organizational hierarchy affects the allocation of credit within a bank. Using an exogenous variation in organizational design, induced by a reorganization plan implemented in roughly 2,000 bank branches in India during 1999 - 2006, and employing a...
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such effect for privately owned banks. Improved credit availability and private information production are the main … is less pro-cyclical and neither leads to more risk taking nor underperformance …
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We examine the connection between the number of bank relationships and firms' performance using a unique data set on Italian small firms for which banks are a major source of financing. Our evidence indicates that return on equity and return on assets decrease as the number of bank relationships...
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This paper analyses the role of lending technologies and banking relationships on firms' credit access in Italy. Using … demand and rationing probabilities depending on the size of the borrower. Multiple banking relationships alleviate financial …, firms maintaining banking relationships based on transactional technologies are more likely to be credit denied, while the …
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the capital intensity of production at the firm level. Firms experiencing adverse credit shocks were also more likely to … when instruments based on pre-crisis banking relationships are used. We show that banking relationships were conditionally …
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This comparative study analyzed the impact of loan portfolio composition on the efficiency of different types of banks … in India-public sector, old private, and new private banks-in the period between 2013 and 2022. Efficiency was evaluated … sector lending, and secured lending in proportion to the overall loans-as independent factors against the efficiency score as …
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