Within the last decade sizeable capital inflows from mature economies were accompanied by rapid financial deepening in the Western Balkans, Turkey and the CIS. Notwithstanding their considerably different initial positions most countries sustained financial stability in the first period of the...

Summary The current financial crisis is often said to be caused by excessive liquidity and distorted incentives in the US subprime real estate sector. Taking this as a starting point, this paper analyzes the relation between house prices and credit respectively money growth between 1992 and 2006...

Im vergangenen Jahrzehnt gingen beträchtliche Kapitalströme aus den entwickeltenVolkswirtschaften mit einem starken Kreditwachstum in den Ländern des westlichen Balkans,der Türkei und den GUS einher. Dennoch konnten fast alle Länder der Region – ungeachtetihrer unterschiedlichen...

Within the last decade sizeable capital inflows from mature economies were accompanied by rapid financial deepening in the Western Balkans, Turkey and the CIS. Notwithstanding their considerably different initial positions most countries sustained financial stability in the first period of the...

The tax exemption of interest revenues and the high level of professional secrecy were the unique selling points of Luxembourg for the German banking community. From the 1960s to the 1990s, they were the main causes for the rise of Luxembourg to one of the biggest euromarket places. The...

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In einem einfach gehaltenen Bankmodell untersucht der Beitrag die ökonomischen Wirkungen des Einsatzes von Derivaten für marktgängige und nicht marktgängige Risiken. Wir betrachten das klassische Kredit– und Einlagengeschäft einer kompetitiven Bank. Sind Kreditausfall- und...

In diesem Beitrag wird die Einsatzmöglichkeit eines Kreditderivats vom Typ einer Kreditoption für eine Bank untersucht. Das Management des Kreditrisikos erfährt in jüngerer Zeit besondere Aufmerksamkeit. Gestiegenen Kreditausfallrisiken begegnen Kreditinstitute mehr und mehr durch die...

Credit risk measurement and management become more important in all financial institutions in the light of the current financial crisis and the global recession. This particularly applies to most of the complex structured financing forms whose risk cannot be quantified with com-mon rating...

The credit business is an essential part of each banks' activities. With regard to the increasing regulatory obligations, the risk management and the associated minimum capital requirements gain in importance. Banks have got the possibility to determine their credit risk by an internal rating...