One of the most important recent innovations in financial markets has been the development of credit derivative products that allow banks to more actively manage their credit portfolios than ever before. We analyze the effect that access to these markets has had on the lending behavior of a sample of banks, using a sample of banks that have not accessed these markets as a control group. We find...

This paper examines the relationship between UK firms’ choices over bank-based and market-based finance under different monetary conditions. The evolving financial environment facing the corporate sector provides many nonbank external finance options available as an alternative to bank finance. The paper shows that firms distributed according to their type (asset size, rating etc) have differen...

This paper models loan rate-setting behavior, taking into account the product pricing and performance of the borrowing firm, and also calculates the bank’s loan-risk sensitive equity values. The lending function creates the need to model bank equity as a capped call option, which captures the credit risk directly related to management of a firm’s operations. When the product price set by the bo...

This research examines the e¤ects of relaxing credit constraints on households’ saving and credit choices. I focus in the opening of a new bank in Mexico that targeted workers of the informal sector that were previously denied access to bank credit. I …rst explore the di¤erence-indi¤erence e¤ects of the appearance of this bank. Important changes are found in households from municipalities with ...

This paper sets out to estimate expected lifetime of revolving credit facilities (e.g. credit card products) and is motivated by the introduction of the International Financial Reporting Standard 9 (IFRS 9) and its requirements for loan impairments. The reporting entity is required to estimate lifetime expected credit losses for certain financial instruments. In practice, maximum contractual pe...

The professional discussion divides itself into two broad categories. Macroeconomists typically are concerned with explaining business cycle fluctuations and determining when a recession will degenerate into a depression. 2 They are equally interested in the financial system's role as a propagator of this process because most depressions have been accompanied by serious disruptions in the finan...