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We investigate the relationship between bank complexity and bank risk-taking using German banking data over the period …
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likelihood of bank distress makes banks reduce their on-balance sheet interest rate exposure and simultaneously intensify their … compliance with the interest rate risk regulation. Although hedging motives dominate, we find selective hedging behavior in swap …
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unweighted leverage requirements, their differential impact on bank lending, and equity buffer accumulation in excess of … regulatory minima. Tighter risk-weighted capital requirements reduce loan supply and lead to an endogenous fall in bank … profitability, reducing bank incentives to accumulate equity buffers and, therefore, increasing the incidence of bank failure …
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We investigate German banks' exposure to interest rate risk. In finance, higher demand for a risky asset is typically associated with higher expected return. However, employing a utility function which implies both risk-averse and risk-seeking behavior depending on the level of profits, we show...
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We investigate whether banks actively manage their exposure to interest rate risk in the short run. Using bank …
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. Since the establishment of the Banking Union in 2014, the European Central Bank (ECB) can impose stricter regulations than … bank's contribution to systemic risk (SRISK) at the national and the euro-area level. Our research delivers three main …, an exploration of the drivers of systemic risk shows that a bank’s contribution to systemic risk is positively related to …
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protection selling in CDS, the effect being weaker when sovereign risk is high. Bank and country risk variables are mostly not … building a complete picture and understanding fully the economic drivers of the bank-sovereign nexus of risk. …
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In this paper, we analyze the impact of loan growth and business model on bank risk in 15 EU countries. In contrast to …, decreases with bank size possibly because large banks are more active in volatile trading and off-balance sheet activities such …
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In attempting to promote bank stability, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2006) provides a framework that … regarding the treatment of tail risk. -- Bank regulation ; bank stability ; Basel framework ; crisis ; tail risk …
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Using unique data of a survey among small and medium-sized German banks, we analyze various aspects of risk management over a short-term and medium-term horizon. We especially analyze the effect of a 200-bp increase in the interest level. We find that, in the first year, the impairments of...
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