Organizzarsi per prestare in tempo di crisi. Risultati di un’indagine sulle banche (Getting Organized to Lend in a Period of Crisis: Findings from a Survey of Italian Banks)
34 Pages Posted: 4 May 2013
Date Written: April 10, 2013
Abstract
Il lavoro analizza l’organizzazione dell’attività di prestito delle banche utilizzando i risultati di due indagini riferite al 2006 e al 2009. In questo periodo l’utilizzo di metodologie di rating e scoring è andato diffondendosi anche alle banche più piccole; gli intermediari maggiori hanno impiegato tali tecniche in modo più incisivo nel pricing dei prestiti, mentre si è ridotta la rilevanza dei rating nella decisione se concedere il finanziamento; le banche più piccole hanno continuato a utilizzarli in modo flessibile. In seguito alla crisi le banche hanno attribuito maggiore importanza a tutte le fonti informative, qualitative o quantitative, accrescendo la richiesta di garanzie. La tendenza al decentramento delle decisioni sembra essersi interrotta e la permanenza media dei responsabili di filiale è diminuita. Questi ultimi hanno deleghe spesso correlate ai rating, mentre gli incentivi nella loro remunerazione non hanno subito modifiche sostanziali. In sintesi, la recessione del 2008-09 in taluni casi ha contribuito ad accelerare processi di riorganizzazione già in corso, in altri invece ne ha mutato la direzione.
This paper analyses how banks organize their lending activity by using the results of two surveys carried out in 2006 and in 2009. During this period, the use of rating and scoring methodologies became more widespread even among the smaller banks. Larger banks used these techniques more frequently when pricing their loans, while the importance of ratings in deciding whether to grant a loan in the first place declined. Smaller banks continued to use ratings in a flexible way. In the wake of the crisis banks gave more importance to both hard and soft types of information and increased their guarantee requirements. The trend towards decentralizing decision-making seems to have halted and the average tenure of branch managers has shortened. These managers have mandates that are frequently correlated with the ratings, while pay incentives have not changed substantially. In brief, the 2008-09 recession in some cases contributed to the acceleration of reorganization processes already under way, in others however it altered their direction.
Note: Downloadable document is in Italian.
Keywords: G21, L15
JEL Classification: banking organization, lending techniques, financial crisis
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