Corporate Financial Leverage, Asset Utilization and Nonperforming Loans in Pakistan

dc.contributor.author	Ijaz Hussain
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-05T05:16:30Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-05T05:16:30Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/15543
dc.description	PP.34; ill	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This study applies panel least squares and fixed effects to a sample of 40 banks for the period 2006–14 to identify the key determinants of nonperforming loans (NPLs) in Pakistan. The findings suggest that, in addition to some macroeconomic and bank-specific variables, the corporate debt–equity ratio and financial burden have a positive, significant impact on NPLs, while corporate asset utilization and the diversification of bank activities significantly reduce the volume of NPLs. This has policy implications not only for the federal government, but also for bank managers, regulators and policy advisors.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	© Lahore School of Economics	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Volume 22;No.1
dc.subject	Nonperforming Loans	en_US
dc.subject	Bank Asset Quality	en_US
dc.subject	Diversification	en_US
dc.subject	Pakistan	en_US
dc.title	Corporate Financial Leverage, Asset Utilization and Nonperforming Loans in Pakistan	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US