portfolio, one for market risk and one for credit risk. Similar approaches are common in banks’ internal models for economic … capital. Although it is known that joint market and credit risk of certain investments can be larger than the sum of risks … holdings or CDS portfolios – are also affected. There are realistic conditions under which credit risk (represented by ratings …

We show that banks' risk exposure in one asset category affects how they report regulatory risk weights for another … asset category. Specifically, banks report lower credit risk weights for their loan portfolio when they face higher risk … constraints. Our results suggest the existence of incentive spillovers across different risk categories. We relate this behavior …

, brought about via less asset risk. A decrease in the requirement implies more lending to firms but also less Tier 1 capital …

adequacy related to credit risk. For the first time, it combines calibration of microprudential capital requirements and …/country-specific systematic factors, the model focuses on credit default concentration risk as a major source of large losses that may have … systemic impact. A test run using a sample of 12 systemically important German banks provides measures for systemic credit risk …

The internal ratings-based (IRB) approach maps bank risk profiles more adequately than the standardized approach. After … switching to IRB, banks' risk-weighted asset (RWA) densities are thus expected to diverge, especially across countries with … different supervisory strictness and risk levels. However, when examining 52 listed banks headquartered in 14 European countries …

Mutual fund risk-taking via active portfolio rebalancing varies both in the cross-section and over time. In this paper …, I show that the same is true for funds' off- balance sheet risk-taking, even after controlling for on-balance sheet … information. In the empirical application, I show that German equity funds have increased their risk-taking via synthetic leverage …