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In August 1996, the U.S. bank regulatory agenciesadopted the market risk amendment (MRA) to the 1988Basle Capital Accord. The MRA, which became effectivein January 1998, requires that commercial banks withsignificant trading activities set aside capital to cover themarket risk exposure in their...
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I am very pleased to be part of this forward-looking conferenceon developments in capital regulation. Because thepurpose of capital is to support risk, I decided to approachthis session from the viewpoint of someone leading aninstitution that depends, for its success or failure, on howwell it...
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[...]In this article, we explore the DPCs’ approachesto risk management and the extent to which theseapproaches provide competitive advantage. We begin bycharacterizing the major intermediaries in the derivativesmarkets and describing how they manage risk. We thendiscuss the emergence of...
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Statistical analysis of Greek sovereign debt denominated in gold and traded on the London Stock Exchange from the … its debt obligations. No a priori specification of important dates is made. Military defeat and its aftermath exerted a … strong negative impact on the value of Greek sovereign debt. The statistical analysis shows that investors acted upon news of …
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distribution arising from correlated credit eventsfor any arbitrary portfolio of counterparty exposures, downto the individual … and credit migrations.1 Theimportance of tabulating the exact loss distribution ishighlighted by the fact that … that managementfaces a distribution of potential losses rather than asingle potential loss. In order to define credit risk …
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In the view of most policymakers and economists,competition in retail banking takes place in localmarkets covering a relatively small geographic area.Banks are thought to design their services and settheir loan and deposit rates in response to the supply anddemand conditions prevailing in a...
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individual homeowner credit histories to the loan-levelanalysis of the factors influencing the probability that a homeownerwill … refinance. In addition to credit histories, we includein the analysis changes in individual homeowner’s equity and inthe overall …
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We consider a general equilibrium model with frictions in credit markets used by households. Inour economy, houses …
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).1 In this period, state debt amassed rapidly due to increased market loans abroad. In order to evaluate the credibility of … money was an immediate problem, rather than fiscal policies causing the fiscal deficits and internal debt. Their conclusion …
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This paper is a case study about investor behaviour of the government of Berne on capital markets in the 18th century, focussing mainly on London. Economic theory about principal-agent problems and portfolio administration will be used to analyse quantitative and qualitative data from government...
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