Evidence from many countries in recent years suggests that collateral values and recovery rates on corporate defaults can be volatile and, moreover, that they tend to go down just when the number of defaults goes up in economic downturns.(...)

Gemäß den im Juni dieses Jahres endgültig verabschiedeten Rahmenrichtlinien der neuen Baseler Kapitalstandards sind Kredite im Wesentlichen mit den unerwarteten Verlusten zu unterlegen. Für erwartete Verluste sind hingegen Rückstellungen zu bilden, wobei Differenzen zwi-schen erwarteten...

Like all the member states of the European Union, Slovenia was also obligated to implement EUDirectives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC into national banking legislative. Basel II rules were implementedinto Slovenian legislative in December 2006 and have been valid from 1st of January 2007. Before...

Der aktuell diskutierte Gesetzentwurf für eine Reform der Einlagensicherung in Weißrusslandverfolgt das Hauptziel, mehr Sparmittel der Bevölkerung für das planwirtschaftliche Wirtschaftssystemverfügbar zu machen. Bei einer nicht passgenau auf die Landessituation abgestimmtenAusgestaltung...

Financial intermediaries may increase economic efficiency through intertemporal risk smoothing.However without an adequate regulation, intermediation may fail to do this. This paper studiesthe effects of a production shock in a closed economy and compares abilities of market-based andbank-based...

This paper analyzes the effects of parliamentary election cycles on the Turkish banking system. Usingannual bank-level data representing all banks in Turkey during 1963–2007, we present evidence of meaningfuldifferences in the structure of bank assets, liabilities and financial performance...

This paper first provides a simple but very general framework for credit portfolio modellingwhich is based on the distinction between systematic and unsystematic risk. Unsystematicor borrower-specific risk vanishes through diversification in a very large, infinitelyfine-grained portfolio. The...

This paper analyzes the association between aggregate default and recovery rates on credit assets, and seeks to empirically explain this critical relationship. We examine recovery rates on corporate bond defaults, over the period 1982-2002.(...)