MACROECONOMIC FACTORS, CORRUPTION, NPAS IN 4 PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS: A CROSS STUDY

Banks play a vital role in economic development and growth of a country. A sound and healthy financial institution ensures overall stability of the system. Commercial and cooperative banks together constitute the Indian Banking System. Commercial Banks account for more than 90% of the banking sector’s assets. The public sector banks account for a substantial part of the banking activity in India. The growth in banking sector has been burdened and hindered by increasing non-performing assets. In this paper, we aim to understand the influence of macroeconomic factors such as GDP per capita, Real Interest rates and inflation along with some bank factors such as bank size, diversification of assets and priority sector lending on NPAs of four PSBs - Punjab National Bank, Andhra Bank, Corporation Bank and Indian Bank. This paper also aims to understand whether corruption could be a determinant for NPAs in these banks.