U.S. commercial banks are increasingly using credit scoring models to underwrite small business credits. This paper discusses this technology, evaluates the research findings on the effects of this technology on small business credit availability, and links these findings to a number of research and public policy issues. JEL classification: G21, G28, G34, L23

This note shows that oligopolistic loan competition with discriminatory pricing is inefficient when competing banks differ in their ability to screen borrowers: banks with better screening abilities win too small market shares. This result contrasts with a finding by Spence (1976) who showed that an oligopoly with price discrimination achieves first–best efficiency. JEL classification: D43; D82...

We study the relationship between banks’ size and risk-taking in context of supranational banking supervision. Consistently with theoretical work on unions contrast to analyses emphasising incentives underpinned by too-big-to-fail effect, we find an inverse non-performing loan growth for a sample European banks. Evidence is provided that mechanism operates through enhanced organisational effici...

in this paper, i investigated the determinants of financial development with emphasis on social capital. first, i explain the relationship between financial development and its determinants, then estimate the model with gregory–hansen (1996) and johansen-juselious cointegration techniques in i.r. of iran (1971-2006). the results showed that, inflation and decline in social capital and weak prop...

Abstract We investigate how capital requirements affect loan rates by studying the 50% increase in risk weight for high volatility commercial real estate (HVCRE) loans under Basel III. Exploiting variation terms and exposure to period after rule’s implementation, we find that a one-percentage-point raises 8.5 basis points. Using model of bank funding costs, demonstrate timing scope HVCRE rule i...

Macro-prudential authorities need to assess medium-term downside risks the real economy, caused by severe financial shocks. Before activating policy measures, they also consider their short-term negative impact. This gives rise a risk management problem, an inter-temporal trade-off between expected growth and risk. Predictive distributions are estimated with structural quantile vector autoregre...