Exploring Industry-Distress Effects on Loan Recovery: A Double Machine Learning Approach for Quantiles

Hui-Ching Chuang and Jau-er Chen
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Hui-Ching Chuang: College of Management, Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan 320, Taiwan

Econometrics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: In this study, we explore the effect of industry distress on recovery rates by using the unconditional quantile regression (UQR). The UQR provides better interpretative and thus policy-relevant information on the predictive effect of the target variable than the conditional quantile regression. To deal with a broad set of macroeconomic and industry variables, we use the lasso-based double selection to estimate the predictive effects of industry distress and select relevant variables. Our sample consists of 5334 debt and loan instruments in Moody’s Default and Recovery Database from 1990 to 2017. The results show that industry distress decreases recovery rates from 15.80% to 2.94% for the 15th to 55th percentile range and slightly increases the recovery rates in the lower and the upper tails. The UQR provide quantitative measurements to the loss given default during a downturn that the Basel Capital Accord requires.

Keywords: loss given default; recentered influence function; quantile regression; double machine learning; lasso (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B23 C C00 C01 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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