Stock loan is different from the traditional loan, it needs to be collateralized by stock. Fairly valuing stock loan is very important for financial market participants. The main contribution of this paper is to give a valuing method of stock loan in uncertain environment. Under the assumption that the underlying stock price follows an uncertain mean-reverting stock model, the price formulas of...

Riskiness of a particular loan can be estimated based on several of its economic indicators. Although the actual relationship is very complicated, it is possible to construct a simplified model which can roughly classify a loan into one of the three categories high risk loan, medium risk loan and low risk loan based on certain criteria. This paper seeks to build such a model based on publicly a...

To understand better the role of loan officers in the origins of the financial crisis, we study a controlled experiment conducted by a large bank. In the experiment, the incentive structure of a subset of small business loan officers was changed from fixed salary to commission-based compensation. We use a diffin-diff design to show that while the characteristics of loan applications did not cha...

We show that the determinants and economic implications of the primary loan loss indicators reported in financial reports—non-performing loans (NPL), the allowance and provision for loan losses (ALL and PLL), and net loan charge-offs (NLCO)—vary dramatically across real estate, commercial, and consumer loan types, because these types differ in their homogeneity and collateralization and thus in...

this study was conducted with the objective of identifying the major determinants of loan repayment in small scale enterprises (sses) with particular reference to sses in one of kenya’s most dynamic informal business hub, kariobangi division in nairobi. in order to achieve this objective, primarily data were collected from 50 randomly selected respondents by using questionnaires. descriptive st...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Loan loss provisions Gains Securitization and loan sales SFAS No. 140 Earnings benchmarks This study investigates earnings management through managing specific accruals vs. structuring transactions in the banking industry. This paper explores the circumstances under which banks manipulate loan loss provisions vs. circumstances that lead banks to structure loan sa...

The study assessed beneficiaries’ satisfaction in the management of loag-contract components by cooperatives involved in the farm credit delivery in Edo State. The objective was to identify the components of the farm loan contract, examine the management strategies and rate the beneficiaries’ satisfaction of such management strategies. This was done by purposively selecting 40 cooperatives invo...

It is a difficulty problem to choice repayment patterns of student loan. “Conventional mortgage-type loan” and “Income contingent loan” has been performed in many countries. These loan repayment manners have their own characteristics. In this paper, we discuss their advantages and disadvantages, and would provide policy choice for student loans programs in China. These suggestions maybe supply ...

the emphasis of this paper is the role of volatility indices on improvement artificial neural networks (anns) forecasting models for the daily usd/eur and usd/gbp exchange rates two volatility indices are used. first; the realized volatility, which is based on intra-daily data, and second the garch volatility. they are applied into the model in two ways. firstly, the lagged volatility index is ...