Purpose – This paper aims at developing an early warning signal model for predicting corporate default in emerging market economy like India. At the same time, it also aims to present methods for directly estimating corporate probability of default (PD) using financial as well as non-financial...

This paper empirically examines the functional role of various micro and macro economic as well as situational factors that determine residential housing demand and risk of borrower default. Using 13,487 housing loan account sanctioned from 1993-2007) data from Housing Finance Institutions...

The main objective of this paper is to estimate a statistical model that incorporates information at different levels: collateral, facility, industry, zone and the macro economy to predict the Recovery Rates which will enable the bank to arrive at the Loss Given Default figure that would help to...

Through RAROC and EVA tools, Banks can establish a good risk management culture that can create competitive advantage and improve shareholder value

This paper investigates the relationship between the changing patterns of bank’s source of income and risk adjusted performance. A database of 77 banks over the period of 1999 to 2004 is constructed for the 27 public sector banks, 22 private banks, 25 foreign banks and 3 cooperative banks to...

This paper aims at working out a more risk sensitive measure of concentration risk and captures its impact in terms of capital number that will help the bank’s top management to manage it efficiently as well as meet the regulatory compliance. We have designed a more risk sensitive measures...

Rating of research journals enables academic institutions to evaluate research quality of scholars in a more transparent manner. An indicative Journal Quality Ranking List has been compiled in this piece of work to assist researchers to understand the academic standards of various business...

Assessment of individual bank’s need for economic capital will enable them to understand their actual solvency position for internal management of capital and evaluating the larger strategic issues like expanding or contracting its risk appetite to generate returns. This paper is an attempt to...

Purpose – This paper is a first attempt to empirically calibrate the default and asset correlation for large companies in India and elaborate its implications for credit risk capital estimation for a bank. Design/methodology/approach – The authors estimate default probabilities and default...

Purpose – The primary objective of the paper is to demonstrate the importance of borrower‐specific characteristics as well as local situation factors in determining the demand prospect as well as the risk of credit loss on residential housing loan repayment behavior in India....