Credit Ratings, Private Information, and Bank Monitoring Ability

37 Pages Posted: 21 Jun 2016

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Leonard I. Nakamura

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Kasper Roszbach

Norges Bank - Research Department; University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and Business

Date Written: 2016-06-16

Abstract

In this paper, we use credit rating data from two large Swedish banks to elicit evidence on banks' loan monitoring ability. For these banks, our tests reveal that banks' internal credit ratings indeed include valuable private information from monitoring, as theory suggests. Banks' private information increases with the size of loans.

Keywords: Monitoring, Banks, Credit Bureau, Private Information, Public Information, Ratings, Regulation, Supervision, Overconfidence

JEL Classification: D82, G18, G21, G24, G32, G33

Suggested Citation

Nakamura, Leonard I. and Roszbach, Kasper F., Credit Ratings, Private Information, and Bank Monitoring Ability (2016-06-16). FRB of Philadelphia Working Paper No. 16-14, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2798538

Leonard I. Nakamura (Contact Author)

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Kasper F. Roszbach

Norges Bank - Research Department ( email )

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University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and Business ( email )

Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance
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Groningen, NL 9747 AE
Netherlands

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