In this paper, I study the empirical determinants of non-performing loan (NPL) ratios using a data set for EU countries covering the previous decade. The paper assumes that the spatial organization of banking systems and the geographical distribution of commercial banks' branches, ATMs...

The federal mortgage policy, the conforming loan limit (CLL), was spatially uniform before the recent financial crisis, despite heterogeneity across geography. An increased CLL leads to remarkable regional variation in declines in jumbo loan applications, exogenously increasing jumbo-lending...

We use a large data set of over 12 million residential mortgages observed over time to investigate the loan default behavior in several European countries. We model the occurrence of default as a function of borrower characteristics, loan-specific variables, and a set of local economic...

Middle-aged people have a higher demand for bank loans compared to other age groups and banks that are active in regions with more middle-aged residents are exposed to higher loan demand. This generates a geographically varying demand for loans. Using this variation, we show that banks increase...

The transition from the state ownership to market mechanisms in Hungary fundamentally altered the geography of domestic micro, small, and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study investigates the spatial and temporal evolution of owner numbers, using data on all Hungarian SMEs between 1991 and 2019...

Es wird ein empirischer Ansatz vorgestellt, wie die Kreditrisiken im Unternehmenskreditportfolio untersucht werden können. Dabei werden Stress-Szenarien für Verlustquoten auf der Ebene der einzelnen Sektoren historisch ermittelt. Alternativ schätzen wir die empirische Assoziation zwischen...

"Arbitrage CDOs" have recorded an explosive growth during the years before the outbreak of the financial crisis. In the present paper we discuss potential sources of such arbitrage opportunities, in particular arbitrage gains due to mispricing. For this purpose we examine the risk profiles of...

This paper uses the market-standard Gaussian copula model to show that fair spreads on CDO tranches are much higher than fair spreads on similarly-rated corporate bonds. It implies that credit ratings are not sufficient for pricing, which is surprising given their central role in structured...

Die Target-Forderungen der Deutschen Bundesbank entstanden durch die Regeln des Eurosystems und der dadurch erzwungenen Kreditvergabe der deutschen an die übrigen europäischen Zentralbanken. Es gilt heute als unstrittig, dass diese Forderungen im Risiko stehen, sollten Target-Schuldner aus dem...

This paper decomposes the explained part of the CDS spread changes of 31 listed euro area banks according to various risk drivers. The choice of the credit risk drivers is inspired by the Merton (1974) model. Individual CDS liquidity and other market and business variables are identified to...