We investigate the impact of bank capital, market discipline and charter value as bank disciplinary tools on both bank equity risk (systematic risk, total risk, and idiosyncratic risk) and default risk/credit risk. We analyse 218 listed banks across 15 Asia-Pacific countries, and find that bank...

We show that capital charges for foreign currency options estimated using a standardized model proposed by the Basle Committee on Banking Supervison are not consistently related to value at risk (VAR). We propose a simplified incremental model (SIM) and a simplified value at risk (SVAR) model...