ABSTRACT
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are quite critical for the development
of Chinese market economy, and play a more and more important role in the economy,
employment and innovation fields. However, shortage of funds and financing
difficulties makes SMEs start hard and develop slowly. On the one hand, banks set
obstacles on SMEs’ loan application subjectively. On the other hand, with current
pricing method of domestic banks, the loan price is too high for SMEs, which combat
the financing enthusiasm of SMEs. The author considers that our domestic financial
institutions have not yet established a mature risk assessment system as well as loan
pricing system for SMEs, which is the key factor to above problems. Therefore the
research on loan pricing for SMEs is meaningful to solve SMEs’ financing difficulty.
Because of the importance of this subject, the author departures from the financing
difficulties encountered by SMEs, trying to explore an effective method to get
reasonable loan price for SMEs. This thesis is divided into six chapters: The first
chapter describes the background of SMEs’ financing difficulties and summarizing
some existing research achievements and the contents of this thesis; The second chapter
describes the system of loan pricing theory, including the basic theory and common
model, and highlights the RAROC theory and model; The third chapter analyzes the
status, problems and principles of domestic loan pricing for SMEs. By comparison, the
RAROC pricing model is selected as the fundamental for loan pricing; The forth chapter
at first states the application of RAROC model, and introduces the thought of empirical
analysis and the sample; Then based on the financial indicators of SMEs, this chapter
applies the empirical method including the nonparametric test, factor analysis and
clustering analysis to establish credit risk rating model for SMEs, then determine the
default probability of SMEs and form loan pricing method for SMEs based on RAROC.
The fifth chapter takes an example to describe the process of SMEs loan pricing,
confirming the applicability of the RAROC model for loan pricing of SMEs; The sixth
chapter summarizes the conclusions of this thesis, and gives some corresponding
suggestions from three perspectives.
Based on pricing theories and according to the status and characteristics of
loan pricing of SMEs, this thesis have selected the RAROC model as fundamental of
loan pricing for SMEs and analyzed its application, and particularly this thesis have
researched on how to establish the credit rating model and measure the default
probability of SMEs through the empirical analysis. On the basis of that, combining
with RAROC model the loan pricing method for SMEs is determined, and practiced by
case.
Key Word: SMEs, Loan Pricing, RAROC, Credit Rating