This paper examines the effectiveness of Japan’s Emergency Credit Guarantee (ECG) program set up during the financial turmoil following the failure of Lehman Brothers, in increasing credit availability and improving the ex-post performance of small businesses. In particular, using a unique firm-bank matched dataset, the paper examines whether lending relationships enhanced or dampened the effec...

in this paper we analyze the relationship between creditrisk & profitability in iranian banks. the credit risk is measured bynon-performing loans ratio &loan; loss provision ratio. also, theprofitability has been measured by return on assets &return; on equity.the survey data are from fifteen iranian banks& credit institutesduring the time period of 2003 to 2009.results show that there is asign...

mazandaran province is one of the most important agricultural areas in iran. researches findings show that the role of bank credits is really important due to the lack of available funds in agricultural sector. in this study, the relationship between allocation of agricultural bank credits of iran as professional bank section and agricultural employment was studied in the mazandaran province ba...

We investigate the interdependence of the default risk of several Eurozone countries (France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain) and their domestic banks during the period June 2007 May 2010, using daily credit default swaps (CDS). Bank bailout programs changed the composition of both banks’ and sovereign balance sheets and, moreover, affected the linkage between the default...

T he lending activity of commercial banks has long received considerable attention as an important contributor to the performance of the economy. This attention has, perhaps, become sharper in the wake of the difficulties experienced by the banking industry in the 1980s. In recent years, the public perception of bank lending seems to have swung through a cycle. In the early 1990s, the prevailin...

In any country, commercial banks lay the groundwork for economic growth by collecting national resources and capitals and allocating them to different economic sectors. Optimal allocation of resources is especially important in achieving this goal. Banks with an effective and dynamic system of customer assessment can efficiently allocate their resources to customers regardless of their geograph...

This paper describes the evolution of the various information sharing mechanisms that have emerged in Mexico; it studies their evolution, regulation and market structure. Sharing mechanisms alleviate the effects of asymmetric information in the credit market. It is known that the development of the credit market and information sharing mechanisms are closely related. We show that in Mexico info...