Investment decisions of cooperative banks are very restricted to their risk capacity. A well defined and organised Risk Management Process supports those investment activities and assists to achieve a balanced situation between risk and return.Several ways can be chosen to allocate risk capital....

This paper deals with the problem of interpolation of discount factors betweentime buckets. The problem occurs when price and interest rate data of a marketsegment are assigned to discrete time buckets. A simple criterion is developed inorder to identify arbitrage-free robust interpolation...

Innovations in the finance industry are an important tool to enhance profitability and to increase anation's wealth. It, therefore, is not astonishing that there is much empirical work on innovations infinance. Most of the work however is concerned with the design of innovative products. The...

SMEs play a crucial role for European economies. The numbers show the high importance ofSMEs for national economies. Accordingly, it is no surprise that the regulatory frameworkSMEs are imbedded in is the subject of an important political discussion. In the discussion itis frequently mentioned...

The paper discusses the impact of the Basel II Accord on the financing of smalland medium size enterprises (SME) in Austria. Although the Basel II Accord hasnot been established yet, the study tries to evaluate the expected impact of theBasel II Accord on SMEs, on the bases of the current...

This paper deals with the problem of interpolation of discount factors between time buckets. The problem occurs when price and interest rate data of a market segment are assigned to discrete time buckets. A simple criterion is developed in order to identify arbitrage-free robust interpolation...

Investment decisions of cooperative banks are very restricted to their risk capacity. A well defined and organised Risk Management Process supports those investment activities and assists to achieve a balanced situation between risk and return. Several ways can be chosen to allocate risk...

This paper deals with the problem of interpolation of discount factors between time buckets. The problem occurs when price and interest rate data of a market segment are assigned to discrete time buckets. A simple criterion is developed in order to identify arbitrage-free robust interpolation...

Investment decisions of cooperative banks are very restricted to their risk capacity. A well defined and organised Risk Management Process supports those investment activities and assists to achieve a balanced situation between risk and return. Several ways can be chosen to allocate risk...