Forward looking loan provisions: Credit supply and risk-taking

Bernardo Morais, Gaizka Ormazabal, Jose-Luis Peydro, Monica Roa and Miguel Sarmiento ()

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Abstract: We show corporate-level real, financial, and (bank) risk-taking effects associated with calculating loan provisions based on expected—rather than incurred—credit losses. For identification, we exploit unique features of a Colombian reform and supervisory, matched loan-level data. The regulatory change induces a dramatic increase in provisions. Banks tighten all new lending conditions, adversely affecting borrowing-firms, with stronger effects for risky-firms. Moreover, to minimize provisioning, more affected (less-capitalized) banks cut credit supply to risky-firms— SMEs with shorter credit history, less tangible assets or more defaulted loans—but engage in “search-for-yield” within regulatory constraints and increase portfolio concentration, thereby decreasing risk diversification.

Keywords: loan provisions; IFRS9; corporate real and credit supply effects of accounting; bank risk-taking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 G18 G21 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Working Paper: Forward Looking Loan Provisions: Credit Supply and Risk-Taking (2021)
Working Paper: Forward Looking Loan Provisions: Credit Supply and Risk-taking (2020)
Working Paper: Forward looking loan provisions: Credit supply and risk-taking (2020)
Working Paper: Forward Looking Loan Provisions: Credit Supply and Risk-Taking (2020)
Working Paper: Forward Looking Loan Provisions: Credit Supply and Risk-Taking (2020)
Working Paper: Forward Looking Loan Provisions: Credit Supply and Risk-Taking (2020)
Working Paper: Forward looking loan provisions: Credit supply and risk-taking (2020)
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