Trennschärfere Kreditentscheidungsverfahren (Credit Scoring) sind ein Wettbewerbsvorteil für Banken. Sie erlauben es ihnen, profitablere Kundensegmente bei der Kreditvergabe zu identifizieren. Sollte die im Firmenkundenbereich übliche subjektive Einschätzung des Kreditnehmers durch den...

This dissertation is a collection of three stand-alone research papers. Myresearch since 2002 has focused on the economics of education andorganizational economics. The dissertation covers papers which link thesetwo research areas. The introduction puts the papers in a more...

Applying modelling techniques for getting acquainted with customer behaviour, predicting the customers’ next step is neccessary to keep in competition, by decreasing the capital requirement (Basel II - IRB) or making the portfolio more profitable. According to the easily implementable...

The intention of a loan loss provision is the anticipation of the loan's expected losses by adjusting the book value of the loan. Furthermore, this loan loss provision has to be compared to the expected loss according to Basel II and, in the case of a difference, liable equity has to be...

The paper sets an accounting and behavioral framework from which we derive a reduced-form equation to test income smoothing and capital management practices through loan loss provisions (PLL) by Spanish banks. Spain offers a unique environment to perform those tests because there are very...

In this paper we develop a probability of default (PD) model for mortgage loans, taking advantage of the Spanish Credit Register, a comprehensive database on loan characteristics and credit quality. From that model, we calculate different types of PDs: point in time, PIT, through the cycle, TTC,...