The article reveals the essence of concept credit as an economic category, its forms, types and principles. policy banking institutions is defined, operations banks at current stage economy are characterized, state activity Ukrainian analyzed. development financial services market in conditions global crisis problems prospects Ukraine have been identified. choice strategy by was studied. main b...

U.S. commercial banks are increasingly using credit scoring models to underwrite small business credits. This paper discusses this technology, evaluates the research findings on the effects of this technology on small business credit availability, and links these findings to a number of research and public policy issues. JEL classification: G21, G28, G34, L23

A firm partially financed by debt is considered. The firm is subject to two types of shocks: macro-shocks modeled as a finite state Markov chain, and idiosyncratic shocks. The dynamics of the latter may depend on the state of the macroeconomy; the state of the economy is determined not only by fundamentals but the market sentiment as well. The lenders are competitive and debt is rolled over unt...

Financial innovations are a common explanation for the rise in credit card debt and bankruptcies. To evaluate this story, we develop a simple model that incorporates two key frictions: asymmetric information about borrowers’ risk of default and a fixed cost of developing each contract lenders offer. Innovations that ameliorate asymmetric information or reduce this fixed cost have large extensiv...

Using the industrial economics approach to the microeconomics of banking we analyze a large bank under credit risk. Our aim is to study how a risky loan portfolio affects optimal bank behavior in the loan and deposit markets, when credit derivatives to hedge credit risk are available. We examine hedging without and with basis risk. In the absence of basis risk the usual separation result is con...