Determinants of Portuguese bank’s provisioning policies: Discretionary behaviour of generic and specific allowances

In this paper we test for the impact of the regulatory environment on a bank’s discretionary provisioning practices. We develop a model that structures the dynamics of the provision policy for the two classes of provisions: generic provisions and specific provisions. The model is tested using a comp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinho, Paulo Soares de (author)
Other Authors: Martins, Nuno Carvalho (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/14948
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/14948