The insurance domain is one of the most complex and extensive areas of the market. However this field is very risk …

increase with the length of maturity. Performance measures, such as return on risk-adjusted capital and the Sharpe ratio, show …Based on German government bond yields, this paper analyses the performance of laddered strategies during a period of … structures are systematically changed. A constructed rolling window of annual returns reveals that risk and return significantly …

capital are analysed. Focus is on the importance of: (i) risk, particularly credit risk, (ii) the buffer as an insurance, (iii …) the competition effect, (iv) supervisory discipline, and (v) economic growth. A negative or non-significant risk effect is … found, which suggests that introducing a more risk-sensitive capital regulation (Basel II) is likely to affect Norwegian …

Correlations are the main drivers for credit portfolio risk and constitute a Major element in pricing credit …

where they are headquartered (territorial LSIs). We compare the performance of territorial LSIs across regions at low and … high ooding risk and test for the \core lending channel" hypothesis, whereby lending to the real economy is a catalyst of …

Accurate measurement of bank risk is a matter of considerable importance for bank regulation and supervision. Current … practices in most countries emphasize reliance on financial statement data for assessing banks’ risk. However, the possibility … of increased reliance on market-based risk indicators has been a topic for academic and regulatory debate for a long time …

This paper examines the validity of the risk-return trade-off for a sample of Czech banks over the period 2002-2022 by … analysing the relationship between the bank risk and risk-adjusted returns. I find evidence of a significant negative … association between the regulatory risk measure and risk-adjusted returns, indicating that the risk-return trade-off does not hold …

We investigate the extent to which various structural risks exacerbate the materialization of cyclical risk. We use a … role in explaining the severity of cyclical and credit risk materialization during financial cycle contractions. Among …