This paper analyses how the introduction of the IRB approach may have affected banks' lending to enterprises, lending margins and portfolio quality in Norway. Our results show that the IRB banks' lending margins decreased compared with the standardised approach banks following the introduction...

Operating costs in the Norwegian banking sector have been reduced considerably in recent decades, both as a share of income and assets. This has increased banks' resilience to increased losses and reduced the risk of crises. In this article, I analyse how costs have been reduced and the main...

This paper analyses how the introduction of the IRB approach may have affected banks' lending to enterprises, lending margins and portfolio quality in Norway. Our results show that the IRB banks' lending margins decreased compared with the standardised approach banks following the introduction...

Operating costs in the Norwegian banking sector have been reduced considerably in recent decades, both as a share of income and assets. This has increased banks' resilience to increased losses and reduced the risk of crises. In this article, I analyse how costs have been reduced and the main...

The paper refers to the impact of the Basel 2 Agreement on the development of small and medium enterprises (SME). There are presented the methods for estimating the rating (standard, basic inter and advanced rating). It is also presented the experience of some countries like Italy, Germany,...

La stabilité de l'intérêt et pour le bon fonctionnement du service public, mais pour lequel le salarié est protégé de cette façon pour tous les abus de l'organe de direction à quel parti et qui ne seront pas en mesure de sanction, le transfert, le remplacement de la lumière que dans la...