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...

This paper proposes a model that associates borrower credit risk with the cash flow method to assess the economic value of a consumer credit portfolio. A Monte Carlo simulation applying the method to an illustrative loan reveals that the lending standards of the institution, captured in the...

We document how bank lending has changed in response to climate change by analyzing changes in bank loan portfolios since 2012. Using supervisory data providing loan-level portfolios of the largest U.S. banks, we find that banks significantly reduced lending to areas more impacted by climate...