Some Empirical Evidence of Loan Loss Provisions for Albanian Banks

In this paper we used a panel of Albanian banks for the period 2004-2014 to examine the main determinants of loan loss provisions. In addition, we tested how the latest crisis has affected provisioning behaviour of the banks. We find that loan loss provisions of banks are driven by non-discretionary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dushku Elona
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-05-01
Series:Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice
Subjects:
g21
c33
c36
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jcbtp-2016-0016