This paper proposes a credit scoring model for the empirical assessment of default risk drivers of shipping bank loans. A unique dataset, consisting of the credit portfolio of a ship-lending bank is used to estimate a logit model with two-way clustered adjusted standard errors, ensuring robust inferences. Industry specific variables, captured through current and expected conditions in the extremely volatile global shipping freight markets, the risk appetite of borrowers -- the shipowners -- expressed through the chartering policy they follow -- and a pricing variable, are shown for the first time to be the important factors explaining default probabilities of bank loans.
Default risk drivers in shipping bank loans
Transportation research / E ; 94 ; 71-94
2016
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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