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Over the past few years the CDS market's role has evolved from mostly providing default protection towards credit risk trading. The first-ever credit event in a developed country's sovereign CDS has further highlighted the importance of the CDS market from a macro-prudential perspective....
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Over the past few years the CDS market’s role has evolved from mostly providing default protection towards credit risk trading. The first-ever credit event in a developed country’s sovereign CDS has further highlighted the importance of the CDS market from a macro-prudential perspective....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248871
We investigate whether banks actively manage their exposure to interest rate risk in the short run. Using bank …
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Securitization was meant to disperse credit risk to those who were better able to bear it. In practice, securitization appears to have concentrated the risks in the financial intermediary sector itself. This paper outlines an accounting framework for the financial system for assessing the impact...
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risk factors, we separate the bank-specific selection and monitoring abilities from the composition of the loan portfolio …, on average, lower loan losses, (b) the loss rate of a given industry in a bank's loan portfolio is lower if the bank has …
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To study bank behavior, we use tail events in the history of a bank's credit losses as a new type of shock to capital …. When defined appropriately, such events are virtually unpredictable for bank managers and spread evenly over time and banks … competitor of each bank that replicates its sectoral and geographic portfolio composition. This new method combines the …
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Using unique data of a survey among small and medium-sized German banks, we analyze various aspects of risk management over a short-term and medium-term horizon. We especially analyze the effect of a 200-bp increase in the interest level. We find that, in the first year, the impairments of...
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using a new method, the construction of tailored hypothetical bank competitors. …
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using a new method, the construction of tailored hypothetical bank competitors …
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Using unique data of a survey among small and medium-sized German banks, we analyze various aspects of risk management over a short-term and medium-term horizon. We especially analyze the effect of a 200-bp increase in the interest level. We find that, in the first year, the impairments of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012160610