The author's study analyzes, loan valuation methods using discrete time model of contingent claims analysis. In the empirical test, the undiversifiable risk was measured by the correlation coefficient of one borrower with the average return of all borrowers. The results of the test supported the...

Keeping in view that the roles of portfolio risk and the relationship between different risky lending assets in loan valuation have not been studied empirically, this study examines the relationship between undiversiable portfolio risk and portfolio lending with an attempt to fill the gap...

The paper examines whether bank diversification in multiple dimensions can protect bank lending from uncertainty shocks. We use a panel of Vietnamese commercial banks during 2007 - 2019 for empirical analysis and measure uncertainty in banking by the dispersion of bank-level shocks. Our results...