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Determinants of Non-Performing Loan in Nepalese Commercial Banks
Economic Journal of Development Issues
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Determinants of Non-Performing Loan in Nepalese Commercial Banks
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Bhattarai, Seema; Arunima Campus, Arunima Education Foundation, Affiliated to Tribhuvan University
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Economics
Non-performing loan; Commercial banks; Inflation; Gross Domestic Product; Assets |
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The non-performing loans (NPL) of financial institutions are considered as a significant issue in the context of Nepal for last few decades. The paper aims to identify the impact of macroeconomic variables (GDP, Inflation, and Real Effective Exchange Rate) and bank specific variables (size, change in loan, real lending rate of interest, and share of loan to total assets) on the non-performing loan of the commercial banks in Nepal. The study was conducted mainly with secondary sources. The data were collected for 26 commercial banks covering the period of 2002-2012 with 227 observations. The study found that macroeconomic variables such as the real effective exchange rate have significantly negative impact on non-performing loan. The impact of GDP growth rate was found to be insignificant in this study. One year lagged inflation rate has significant positive impact on non-performing loan. The banks which charge relatively higher real interest rate have higher non-performing loan, which is consistent with the findings of previous studies. The ownership dummy has positive coefficient and significant at one percent level showing that if the bank is government owned the non-performing loan would be higher than that of the private owned banks. As well, more lending in the previous years and current year reduces the non-performing loan since the coefficient of change in loan in current and previous years have negative coefficient and significant at one percent level.Economic Journal of Development Issues Vol. 19 & 20 No. 1-2 (2015) Combined Issue, Page: 22-38
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Department of Economics Patan Multiple Campus
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2017-07-07
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-Reviewed Article — |
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application/pdf
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http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/EJDI/article/view/17700
10.3126/ejdi.v19i1-2.17700 |
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Economic Journal of Development Issues; Vol 19 & 20 (2015); 22-38
2091-2285 2091-055X |
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eng
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http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/EJDI/article/view/17700/14369
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Nepal
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Copyright (c) 2017 Economic Journal of Development Issues
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