. We develop a repeated game in which banks come across each other frequently, allowing them to threaten a punishment in … case of free riding. As the number of lending banks grows, the chance of meeting again a bank and of being punished for … restructuring probability increases with the number of banks up to a threshold - three banks - beyond which coordination problems …

banks using a non-parametric Monte Carlo re-sampling method following Carey [1998]. Our results are based on a panel data … set containing both loan and internal rating data from the banks' complete business loan portfolios over the period 1997 … businesses in the sample is rated by both banks, we can generate loss distributions for SME, retail and corporate credit …

been given a central role. Although much research has been done on external ratings, much less is known about banks … the complete business loan portfolios of two Swedish banks and a credit bureau over the period 1997-2000. We study rating … portfolio with identical counterparts, substantial differences in the implied riskiness between banks. Such differences could …

the growth of number of banks, banking network and number of employees. The application of the austerity program in Greece …-performing loans, the reduction of banks operating in Greece due to mergers and acquisitions, bank bankruptcy and withdrawal of foreign … banks. All these resulted in Greece having the most concentrated banking market in the Eurozone. The reduction of the number …

Over the past one and a half years, the amount of credit granted by banks to Hungarian local governments has doubled … an effective restriction on debt, indebtedness in the sector is limited only by the market – i.e. banks’ lending … of coordination are not fully in place in Hungary. Our survey of banks underpins this assumption, revealing that due to …

banks using a non-parametric Monte Carlo re-sampling method following Carey [1998]. Our results are based on a panel data … set containing both loan and internal rating data from the banks’ complete business loan portfolios over the period 1997 … businesses in the sample is rated by both banks, we can generate loss distributions for SME, retail and corporate credit …

We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. First, we estimate …

doctrine, whose prime goal is to protect investors against opportunism by banks, limits the involvement of banks in the …