Information costs and regulatory barriers are the main distinguishing features of international financial markets as compared to national financial markets. This paper presents a simple model of the impact of these factors on banks' cross-border activities and provides empirical evidence. Our...

If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if information costs increase in distance, distance should - ceteris paribus - become less important in determining international bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and...

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