We explore information spillovers and cross monitoring between the stock and loan markets. To break simultaneity between the stock and loan markets, we use a regulatory experiment, Regulation SHO, that relaxes short selling constraints for a randomly selected sample of Russell3000 stocks, which directly affects information production and monitoring by short sellers in the stock market but is ex...

This paper studies how future tense marking affects the terms of bank loans. We predict that languages grammatically mark affect speakers’ intertemporal preferences and thereby reduce perception risks associated with loan issuance. test this hypothesis on a sample 977 loans from 17 European countries. observe use language is lower spreads collateral in contracts. The results corroborate Chen (A...

We examine the effect of house price appreciation on bank loan portfolios during the 1996—2006 period. While most previous research in this area has concentrated on loan demand effects, we evaluate how house prices affect a bank’s credit supply. Controlling for possible simultaneity between house prices and bank loan portfolio growth, we find that banks affected by greater house price appreciat...

This paper analyzes how the movements of the policy interest rate affect bank-relevant variables through changes in the composition of the loan portfolio. Using a computational approach that fully accounts for borrowers’ heterogeneity, we show how the variety of bank customers changes and how this change affects the bank’s cash influx, making it more volatile. The paper also sheds light on how ...

We design an experiment to study the role of (a)symmetry in context group lending with joint liability. The performance joint-liability contracts crucially hinges on borrowers engaging peer monitoring. find that asymmetric contracts, which monitoring is a dominant strategy for one borrower, increase rate, and thus repayment rate performance. Moreover, symmetric contracting also increases expect...

We show that the determinants and economic implications of the primary loan loss indicators reported in financial reports—non-performing loans (NPL), the allowance and provision for loan losses (ALL and PLL), and net loan charge-offs (NLCO)—vary dramatically across real estate, commercial, and consumer loan types, because these types differ in their homogeneity and collateralization and thus in...

This study evaluated the effect of bank consolidation on economic growth of Nigeria between the periods of 2006-2015. Secondary data were sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin and the NDIC Annual Reports between the period of 2006 and 2015. Data was analyzed using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) multiple regression technique with the aid of the SPSS statistical software ...

This study presents an intriguing contrast of the ex ante and ex post relations between mortgage securitization and loan performance using a comprehensive dataset from a major national mortgage bank. While the paper supports that the bank applies lower screening efforts on loans that have higher ex ante probability of being securitized, it further shows that loans remaining on the bank’s balanc...