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Dang, V., Nguyen, H. Does Diversification Protect Bank Lending Against Uncertainty?. Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 55(3), 349-379. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.55.3.349
Dang, Van Dan and Nguyen, Hoang Chung "Does Diversification Protect Bank Lending Against Uncertainty?" Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 55.3, 2022, 349-379. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.55.3.349
Dang, Van Dan/Nguyen, Hoang Chung (2022): Does Diversification Protect Bank Lending Against Uncertainty?, in: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, vol. 55, iss. 3, 349-379, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.55.3.349

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Does Diversification Protect Bank Lending Against Uncertainty?

Dang, Van Dan | Nguyen, Hoang Chung

Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, Vol. 55 (2022), Iss. 3 : pp. 349–379

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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Van Dan Dang, Department of Finance, Banking University of Ho Chi Minh City. Address: 36 Ton That Dam Street, Nguyen Thai Binh Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5524-8765.

Corresponding author. Dr. Hoang Chung Nguyen, Department of Finance and Banking, Business School, Thu Dau Mot University. Address: 06 Tran Van On Street, Phu Hoa Ward, Thu Dau Mot City, Binh Duong Province, Vietnam. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4067-0434.

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Abstract

The paper examines whether bank diversification in multiple dimensions can protect bank lending from uncertainty shocks. We use a panel of Vietnamese commercial banks during 2007 – 2019 for empirical analysis and measure uncertainty in banking by the dispersion of bank-level shocks. Our results confirm that banks may reduce loan growth and experience more credit risk amid greater uncertainty. These adverse impacts of uncertainty on bank lending (both quantity and quality) are significantly alleviated by bank diversification in the loan portfolio, income, and funding aspects. Our findings offer practical implications for regulators and banks themselves: bank diversification can effectively act as a lending shock absorber in periods of high uncertainty.