We propose a method to decompose net lending flows into loan origination and repayments. We show that a boom in loan origination is transmitted to repayments with a very long lag, depressing the growth rate of the stock for many periods. In the euro area, repayments of the mortgage loans granted...

From year to year, strong attention has been paid to the study of the problems of predicting firms' bankruptcy. Bankruptcy prediction is an essential issue in finance especially in emerging economics. Business information systems like Financial Information Systems (FIS) converts and store the...