Loan Loss Provision and Pro-cyclicality: Evidence from Chinese Banks

This study is to investigate how Chinese bank provisioning behaviour is related to business cycle using a GMM for 619 bank-year observations from 2003 to 2010. Loan loss provisioning is heavily dependent upon the performance of the real economy. Provisioning turns out to be substantially lower when...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Xue, Dongmei
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2011
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/25209/