Bundesbank paper: German banks use specific loan loss provisions counter-cyclically

Banks increase level of loan loss provisions during upswings and decrease them during downturns, authors find

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German banks increase their level of specific loan loss provisions during upswings and decrease them during downturns, according to a Bundesbank research paper which claims its findings contrast with the results of several previous studies for other countries.

Loan loss provisioning and procyclicality: evidence from an expected loss model by Christian Domikowsky, Sven Bornemann, Klaus Duellmann, and Andreas Pfingsten explores loan loss provisioning under German national accounting rules using

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