Prague Economic Papers 2018, 27(3):351-374 | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.656

Macroeconomic Drivers of Non-Performing Loans: A Meta-Regression Analysis

Martin Macháček1, Aleą Melecký2, Monika ©ulganová3
1 Department of Economics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic (martin.machacek@vsb.cz)
2 Department of Economics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic (ales.melecky@vsb.cz)
3 Department of Economics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic (monika.sulganova@vsb.cz)

Common exposure to macroeconomic risk factors across financial institutions is a source of a systemic risk that influences quality of banks´ loan portfolios. This paper focuses on the growing literature on credit risk determinants. The aim of the paper is to provide more general information on effects of macroeconomic drivers with the use of quantitative meta-analytic techniques. We consider five of the most common macroeconomic determinants of non-performing loans ratio. The meta-regression results suggest that there are some significant differences among studies, which could be identified. For instance, data specification, estimation method, number of countries and observations included in the model play a significant role. In some cases, e.g. inflation and exchange rate, the size of the effects presented in journals with impact factor are significantly different from other types of studies included in the analysis. The sub-sample analysis mostly confirms meta-regressions results.

Keywords: aggregate credit risk, macroeconomic credit risk drivers, non-performing loans ratio, meta-analysis, sub-samples analysis
JEL classification: C20, E44, G21

Published: June 1, 2018  Show citation

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