Using term structure data of Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads for the four Japanese mega-banks and the government, we jointly estimate the default intensity and expected recovery (loss) given a default. In doing so, we attempt to further identify the difference in the expected recovery ratios...

After the collapse of the asset price bubble, Japanese banks are said to have been reluctant to write off bad loans, even in cases where there is little prospect of borrower firms being able to repay the loans extended. This phenomenon is known as forbearance lending. We illustrate this using a...

This paper aims to investigate the actual nature of the interest rate pass-through to Turkish cash, automobile, housing and corporate loan rates. Focusing on the possibility of nonlinearity in the adjustment of lending rates due to financial market conditions and monetary policies, we adopt the...

Credit rating is at the heart of conventional loan business and gaining more importance due to a new regulatory environment for capital adequacy. This paper investigates one of the essentials of credit rating, non-financial factors, with a context of informal sectors and regions. We have...

Çalışmamızda, makroekonomik değişkenlerin ülkemizdeki konut kredisi hacmi üzerindeki dinamik etkileri (2005: 01)-(2011: 09) dönemi için analiz edilmektedir. Değişkenler arasındaki uzun/kısa dönemli ilişkilerin araştırılmasında, eşbütünleşme testi/vektör hata düzeltme...

After the 2000-2001 financial crises, the Turkish banking sector experienced a process of concentration, with the tendency for merger and acquisition activities, the revocation of licenses and the liquidation of some insolvent banks. This paper assesses the competitive structures in the Turkish...

The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the role of the banking sector in monetary policy transmission in Turkey covering the period 1988-2009. By exploiting dynamic panel data modeling approaches, the heterogeneity in banks’ lending response to changes in policy interest rates is...

Turkish Banking Act exempts certain bank mergers from the Turkish merger control regime. With this legislation, a large number of the potential bank merger are exempted from obtaining the permission from the Turkish Competition Authority. Turkish Competition Authority and international...

We provide a detailed classification of core and non-core liabilities for the Turkish banking system à laShin and Shin (2010). We further carry out a two-stage liquidity stress test similar to Van Den End (2010) where we simulate inflow and outflow factors as well as the network topology of...

We model the choice of loan currency in a framework which features a trade-off between lower cost of debt and the risk of firm-level distress costs. Under perfect information, if foreign currency funds come at a lower interest rate, all foreign currency earners as well as those local currency...