Cross-border bank positions in Asia and the Pacific remain highly concentrated to few counterparties, exposing the … financial stability. To this end, we construct cross-border bank concentration measures for 47 economies in Asia and the Pacific …, are significantly associated with lower cross-border bank concentration. Moreover, elevated cross-border bank …

. Based on a sample of publicly traded banks in Asia from 1998 to 2012, higher abnormal loan growth leads to higher systemic … bureaus can stem the buildup of bank systemic risk one year ahead due to higher abnormal loan growth. Eventually, this paper … negative impact of abnormal loan growth on bank systemic stability …

A recent Asian Development Bank publication estimates the large infrastructure financing requirement in Asia for the …. This paper analyzes a critical aspect of expanding private finance to infrastructure by examining the role of bank lending … guided more by macroeconomic factors and by the strength of their balance sheets. The key policy implications to unlock bank …

This paper analyses the systemic risk in relation to bank lending for Asian economies. The methodology complements … collect. Loan loss provisions of banks are decomposed into (i) a prediction component that is based on observable bank … characteristics, and (ii) two frailty components: a bank-specific systematic factor based on the assumption that a bank's asset …

and bank managers to minimize the size of non-performing loans. After examining 82 banks from US, Europe, Asia and Africa … predictive power of each bank-specific factor (excluding loan diversification), regulatory variable and macroeconomic indicator …

The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of bank capital, bank liquidity level and credit risk on the … USA banking industry. The findings show that bank capital and credit risk influence profitability in Asian developed … is similar for large, small and medium-size banks. The results of this paper indicate that liquidity and bank capital …

We investigate two competing explanations for commercial bank distress during financial crises: liquidity shortages and …

We review the recent academic and policy literature on bank loan loss provisioning (LLP) to identify several advances … smoothing, methodological issues in the bank loan loss provisions literature and the dynamic loan loss provisioning experiment …