Achim Hauck geht der Frage nach, ob Investitionsentscheidungen von bankfinanzierten Unternehmen durch Fehlanreize gekennzeichnet sind. Er zeigt, dass unternehmerische Fehlanreize bei der Investition durch geeignet ausgestaltete Mindesteigenkapitalanforderungen an die sie finanzierenden Banken...

Structural liquidity risk is a material risk resulting from the core banking business of taking in short-term deposits and lending out long-term loans, thus allowing a maturity mismatch between assets and liabilities. At some point the long-term loans will require refinancing and the institution...

The book answers a simple question: when managers and companies face a decision with two outcomes that are safe and risky, what leads them to choose the risky alternative? The answer starts with a detailed review of the theory behind risk and decision making by managers. The book then gathers...

Due to their business activities, banks are exposed to many different risk types. Peter Grundke shows how various risk exposures can be aggregated to a comprehensive risk position. Furthermore, computational problems of determining a loss distribution that comprises various risk types are...