Counterpart risk rating is at the heart of the banking business. In the new Basel II regulation, internal ratings have … 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 …

from corporate debt write-downs appear to be a fraction of banks' capital buffers and, given the size of the leveraged …

core. The estimated model matches four facts about banks’ Tobin’s Q that summarize bank leverage dynamics. (1) Book and … nor market leverage constraints are binding for most banks; (4) bank leverage and Tobin’s Q are mean reverting but highly …

The relationship between banks and customers has contributed to several theories in banking economics. The quality of … the credit is crucial for banks. Banks classify the risk through quantitative and qualitative indicators. Quantitative … indicators are much used by banks, but qualitative indicators are also considered in credit risk evaluation. Taken together, they …

The main aim of this article is to demonstrate a holistic framework for measuring a bank’s financial health by … qualitative and quantitative components, with the banks’ ratings. The dependent variable is the bank’s financial health score …, represented by a dummy variable based on the bank’s rating by the rating agencies and from the relevant value of each bank that …