In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird untersucht, ob regulatorische Kapitalarbitrage durch Verbriefung nach Basel II weiterhin möglich ist. Diese Fragestellung ist vor allem deshalb interessant, da der Baseler Ausschuss für Bankenaufsicht das Ziel hat, dass sich das regulatorische Kapital dem...

In attempting to promote bank stability, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2006) provides a framework that seeks to control the amount of tail risk that large banks take in their trading books. However, banks around the world suffered sizeable trading losses during the recent crisis....

Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan...

Kreditportfolio, Verlustprognose, Mehrjahreshorizont, Heilungswahrscheinlichkeit, Kundenbeziehungskündigung. - Credit portfolio, loss prediction, multi-period, cure-probability, relationship-cancelation

Die Finanzkrise von 2007-2008 hat die Mängel der Finanzsystemregulierung weltweit offengelegt. Der vom Basler Ausschuss für Bankenaufsicht erarbeitete Regulierungsansatz Basel II hat sich als mangelhaft erwiesen. Unter Zuhilfenahme eines agentenbasierten Simulationsmodells, welches die...

We investigate how the lending activities of a multinational bank’s affiliates located abroad are affected by funding difficulties in view of the financial crisis. For this, we consider transaction-induced changes in long-term lending to the private sector of 40 countries by the affiliates of...

When banks choose similar investment strategies, the financial system becomes vulnerable to common shocks. Banks decide about their investment strategy ex-ante based on a private belief about the state of the world and a social belief formed from observing the actions of peers. When the social...

In this paper, we report a descriptive investigation of the structural evolution of two of the most important over-the-counter markets for liquidity in Germany: the interbank market for credit and for derivatives. We use end-of-quarter data from the German large credit register between 2002 and...