This paper investigates the impact of the monetary policy change of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) in 1999 on the Swiss labor market on the basis of a Phillips relationship. Theoretical considerations as well as previous empirical work suggest that the SNB's shift to a more inflation-targeted...

This study extends the work of SHELDON (1995) to banks outside of Switzerland. The results confirm the previous finding that capital-to-assets ratios are a poor guide to the soundness of a bank. This finding implies that capital adequacy rules that do not correctly reflect the risks that banks...

The paper presents an alternative to the capital adequacy requirements proposed by the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision. Akin to the value-at-risk method, the alternative approach envisages national supervisory authorities setting a maximum risk of insolvency that no bank would be allowed...

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Economic theory is unclear on the effects of capital regulation on the risk-seeking behavior of banks. This paper attempts to shed light on the issue by examining the impact of the implementation of the guidelines of the 1988 Basle Capital Accord on a large sample of individual banks drawn from...

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Systemic risk in banking has gained renewed prominence in the literature in recent years. To date, empirical studies aimed at assessing the quantitative importance of systemic risk have analyzed the outcomes of historical banking crises. This paper takes a new tack by attempting to assess the...

The study employs Data Envelopment Analysis and a MALMQUIST index to analyze the development of total factor productivity in Swiss banking during the period 1988/91. The results show that the increase in total factor productivity was primarily due to improved technical efficiency and to a much...