This study examines the relation of bank loan terms like interest rates, collateral, and lines of credit to borrower … risk defined by the banks’ internal credit rating. The analysis is not restricted to a static view. It also incorporates … discovered as important factors. The results show that riskier borrowers pay higher loan rate premiums and rely more on bank …

The development of credit information sharing schemes in developing countries has gained significant attention in … credit information sharing on credit intermediation cost in these countries, and consequently ascertain the extent to which … the credit information sharing–credit intermediation cost nexus may be accentuated by banking market concentration and …

How much of the heterogeneity in bank loan pricing is explained by disparities in banks' attitude towards risk? The … answer to this question is not simple because there are only very weak proxies for gauging the degree of a bank's risk … confirm that disparities in market power, banks' funding costs, and banks' funding risks are re ected in bank lending rates …

' willingness to pay for bank credit and raises questions about the nature of competition in the loan market …This paper investigates the pricing of bank loans relative to capital market debt. The analysis uses a novel sample of … premium relative to the bond-implied credit spread. In a sample of secured term loans to noninvestment-grade firms, the …

the interest income of a hypothetical profit-maximis-ing Chinese bank with no credit quality problems. Taking the … Chi-nese banks. Our results uncover a substantial weakening in the quality of Chinese bank loan portfo-lios in 2016. Big …

Comparing banks to non-bank lenders, we investigate whether the geographical distance between lenders, borrowers and … period. The difference in loan spread when bank-borrower distance increases from zero to the median of about 900 miles is 17 …, geographical distance does not seem to have any effect on the loan spread of mortgages granted by non-bank lenders. Moreover, loans …

jeopardized. This raises concerns for lending institutions that have provided credit to these companies, potentially leading to …

episodes of bank specialization. We use the banks’ real loan allocation worldwide instead of the in-sample data to compute a … bank specialization. We find that firms borrowing from banks with high specialization levels incur lower bank loan spreads …'s sector is the same as its banks' specialized sector. However, this rent would transfer to a discount once the bank is highly …

impact of counterparty credit risk on bank capital regulatory requirements. We developed six scenarios of different interest … the global over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets, where significant counterparty credit risk prevails. In this paper …, we deal with risk under Basel III banking regulation and provide credit valuation adjustment (CVA) modelling, which is a …