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On the rationale of bank lending in pre-crisis Thailand
Evidence from credit files is provided to examine bank lending determinants of Thai commercial banks. Their lending practice follows reasonable patterns as a standard set of variables, including indirect risk variables, explains much of the variance in interest rate spread. Reflecting institutional differences with mature markets, we find higher im-portance of relationship banking and risk control via credit availability. Information about later default reveals prudent relationship lending. However, banks could have made bet-ter use of available information about borrowers' riskiness. These findings do not sup-port a general verdict of bad banking but indicate room to improve lending decisions.
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Seite(n): 1077-1089
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Englisch
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Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Applied Economics, 39(9)
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Menkhoff, Lukas
Suwanaporn, Chodechai
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Veröffentlichung
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2007
- DOI
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-239692
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Menkhoff, Lukas
- Suwanaporn, Chodechai
Entstanden
- 2007