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YES 2011 DiscussionsDubrovnik Economic Conference
Paul WachtelStern School of Business. New York University
Are some banks more lenient in implementation of placement classification rule?
Tomislav Ridzak
Overview
A fascinating piece of applied banking research
Will be of interests to bank regulators, policy makers and, of course, the banks themselves.
Simple idea with big implications that need to be explored
Idea
Companies have more than one banking relationship.
Do different banks rate the same bank differently? There is going to be some random variation.
Can be important tool for bank examiners. Can be informative about bank behavior
But… more to do…relate it back to policy
Policy implications to explore
Do banks with less capital rate loans more leniently?
Do banks that are less profitable rate loans more leniently?
If answers are yes, then Banks are ‘gaming’ the regulators.Risk regulations of unclear value
Data
Loans to non financial companies by 33 Croatian banks 2006-09
Need to ‘prepare’ dataDefine defaultHandle collateral
SINCE THERE IS SOME ARBITRARINESS, ROBUSTNESS TO DEFINTIONS SHOULD BE EXAMINED.
Method from educational stats
BANKS (or Graders)
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COMPAN IES
(or Students)
WHICH BANK IS GRADING IN A SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT WAY?
Method from educational stats
BANKS (or Graders)
__________________
COMPAN IES
(or Students)
WHICH BANK IS GRADING IN A SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT WAY?
RESULTS
There are differences – 2-6 banks are significantly grading away from the pack
But, how much should we expect? I need a benchmark of some kind. How
much behavioral variation is ‘normal’?Appendix figures hint at some answers.
Small, insignificant relationship between relative leniency and coverage ratio (is that average for all of banks’ loans?) Collateral correction should be for each loan
CONCLUSION
Imaginative application.But, what is the goal
So, regulators know more about banksOr, research on bank behavior
The role of demand and supply in cyclical fluctuations of household debt in Coratia
Ivana Herceg
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Overview
Nice paper are a really important issue (not just a Croatia issue)
But, I am not sure why I can understand what the paper sets out to
do But, it is hard to figure out from the paper
what was actually done.Which makes it hard to know what the
results are
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The issue
It is common (lots of references shown) to attribute credit booms / crises to easy bank lending standards – supply shift
But credit booms occur when economy is growing and the income elasticity of the demand for credit is high – So it could be a demand shift.
So, which is it? S or D?
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Approach
Standard econometrics – identify S and D curves and see which is moving more in the boom.
Hard to find identifying restrictions Not clear what data to use other than aggregates
Use information from Croatia household survey to infer bank supply behavior and household demand behavior.
Paper bogs down in confusing explanations of the econometrics and never tells us what it can accomplish.
Infer supply
Look at households who took at loans (this is the bank’s product) and estimate a production frontier – standard application of stochastic frontier analysis
Understanding Frontier
Two inputs – efficient frontier
Extent to which individual is below frontier – weakness of demand
Extent to which frontier moves over time – change in supply.
In crisis – Did frontier shift in or did demand [inefficiency so to speak] increase?
Frontier results
2008 and 2009 – are estimates (overall) significantly different? Seem to unstable to be so.
Frontier estimation does not include existing loans outstanding as a control.
Alternative approach
Quantile regression estimates?Give me some intuition about what this does.
The results are shown in figures – and I have no idea what the figures show.
Fig. 6 Usage of available credit limits
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1 21 41 61 81 101 121 141 161 181 201 221 241 261 281 301 321
household
ln(n
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credit limit new ly granted loan amount
WHAT AM I LOOKING AT?
What is on each axis?1 to 321 Householdswith loans? How ordered?Resutls from SFA or QR? How presented?
Probability of loan and supply
Some kind of probit estimates for S and D (same 0-1 variable for both)Never see the specificationOr the estimatesOr any tests of the identifying variables (in
footnote 14). Too big an issue for a footnote. And, existence of prior loan seems relevant to both S and D
Little puzzles
“Creditoworthiness….deteriorated”Can we really treat 2008 and 2009 as
different? The one comparison does not answer
original question – does S or D drive credit boom?When is survey conducted?Are othere waves available?
Conclusion
In crisis/recession, banks tightened selection of households to offer loans.
Banks offered selected households larger loans
Households took down less.
Important result – Need to clarify methodology And show how you got the results