Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256815 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 404
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
Bank specialization leads to expertise, including knowledge on zombie borrowers and the negative impact they exert on healthy borrowers. This induces specialized banks to reduce zombie lending. The reduction in zombie lending is larger when the scope and opportunity cost of negative spillovers to healthy borrowers is larger; namely, when the fraction of sectoral labor stuck in zombie firms is larger or when the sector is expected to grow faster. Additionally, specialized banks reduce zombie lending less in sectors with higher asset specificity, as zombie firms' default (and potential asset fire sales) could trigger reductions in healthy borrowers' collateral values.
Subjects: 
Credit misallocation
Zombie lending
Bank specialization
Soft information
JEL: 
G21
G3
L2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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