The purpose of this paper is to examine the degree and art of competition in a domestic bank market. It is the first attempt to use the oligopoly model developed in Oxenstierna (1998) in empirical research. A quasi multi-product (loans and deposits) banking application of that paper’s basic game theoretic model is developed, allowing for asymmetries in cost levels and two different types of pro...

The environment of loan in bank is very complex, there are not only random factors but also fuzzy factors, so the return rates of loan often have fuzzy random characteristic. Mean chance is a measure of fuzzy random variable. This paper proposes two fuzzy random dependentchance programming models of loan portfolio, one is minimize the mean chance of a bad outcome under the certain expected retu...

The Basel II Accord pointed out benefits of credit risk management through internal models to estimate Probability of Default (PD). Banks use default predictions to estimate the loan applicants’ PD. However, in practice, PD is not useful and banks applied credit scorecards for their decision making process. Also the competitive pressures in lending industry forced banks to use profit scorecards...

The purpose of the study is to empirically test the presence of a bank lending channel in the Turkish economy. The empirical investigations are focused on the bank lending behaviour of 58 deposit money banks in the Turkish banking system over the period 19881999. The estimation methodology of the empirical analysis differs from that of similar studies in the literature, providing econometricall...

There is strong evidence that the interest rates charged by banks on the flow of newly extended Commercial & Industrial (C&I) loans predict future loan performance and CAMEL rating downgrades by bank supervisors. While internal risk ratings have little explanatory power for future loan performance, they do help predict future CAMEL downgrades. These findings suggest that supervisors might consi...