We investigate the causal relationship between the efficiency of country's judicial system and the quality of bank lending, using the contracts enforcement reforms implemented in four European countries as a quasi‐natural experiment. We find that strengthening contracts enforcement determines large, significant and persistent reductions in banks' nonperforming loans. Our results have important policy implications: they point at judicial efficiency as a critical determinant of the stability of the banking sector and its resilience to adverse shocks such as the recent Covid‐19 pandemic.
Lending quality and contracts enforcement reforms / D'Apice, V.; Fiordelisi, F.; Puopolo, G. W.. - In: EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. - ISSN 1468-036X. - 30:1(2023), pp. -464. [10.1111/eufm.12422]
Lending quality and contracts enforcement reforms
Puopolo G. W.
2023
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We investigate the causal relationship between the efficiency of country's judicial system and the quality of bank lending, using the contracts enforcement reforms implemented in four European countries as a quasi‐natural experiment. We find that strengthening contracts enforcement determines large, significant and persistent reductions in banks' nonperforming loans. Our results have important policy implications: they point at judicial efficiency as a critical determinant of the stability of the banking sector and its resilience to adverse shocks such as the recent Covid‐19 pandemic.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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