Unter dem Begriff Credit Scoring lassen sich mathematisch-statistische Verfahren zusammenfassen, anhand derer Informationen über Verbraucher oder Unternehmen zu quantitativen Punktwerten (Scores) verdichtet werden, um zu einer statistisch belastbaren Prognose der Erfüllungswahrscheinlichkeit...

We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into 470 loan agreements signed between 2005 and 2012 with borrowers based on 28 different countries across the world and operating in all major industries. Our principal findings...

Capital markets are - by definition - a fairly new phenomenon for countries that started embracing capitalism a little more than ten years ago. More specifically, the first securities exchanges in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) opened at the beginning of the 1990s and the last had been set up...

This paper examines the treatment of sovereign debt exposure within the Basel framework and measures the impact of bank regulation on the demand of Monetary Financial Institutions (MFI) for marketable sovereign debt. Our results suggest that bank regulation has a significant positive impact on...