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Value at risk, bank equity and credit risk
Broll, Udo; Wahl, Jack E. - 2003
We study the implications of the value at risk concept for the bank's optimum amount of equity capital under credit risk. The market value of loans is risky and lognormally distributed. We show that the required equity capital depends upon managerial and market factors. Furthermore, the bank's...
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Performance and regulatory effects of non-compliant loans in German synthetic mortgage-backed securities transactions
Trinkaus, Gaby - 2010
Over the term of a securitization transaction, the concept of non-compliance allows a securitizing bank to classify a …
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Endogenous credit derivatives and bank behavior
Pausch, Thilo - 2007
Instruments for credit risk transfer arise endogenously from and interact with optimizing behavior of their users. This is particularly true with credit derivatives which are usually OTC contracts between banks as buyers and sellers of credit risk. Recent literature, however, does not account...
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An economic capital model integrating credit and interest rate risk in the banking book
Alessandri, Piergiorgio; Drehmann, Mathias - 2009
Banks typically determine their capital levels by separately analysing credit and interest rate risk, but the interaction between the two is significant and potentially complex. We develop an integrated economic capital model for a banking book where all exposures are held to maturity. Our...
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Kreditrisiken - Modellierung und Management: Ein Überblick
Albrecht, Peter - In: German Risk and Insurance Review (GRIR) 1 (2005) 2, pp. 22-152
Die Messung und Bewertung von Kreditrisiken stellt sich aktuell als ein sehr bedeutsames (Stichworte : Basel II, Solvency II, Kreditderivate) Gebiet dar. Allerdings hat sich hierbei keine einheitliche Vorgehensweise herausgebildet, sondern es existieren eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher...
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Firm heterogeneity and credit risk diversification
Hanson, Samuel; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Schuermann, Til - 2005
This paper considers a simple model of credit risk and derives the limit distribution of losses under different assumptions regarding the structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risks and the nature of firm heterogeneity. The theoretical results obtained indicate that if firm-specific risk...
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Securitization and lending standards: evidence from the wholesale loan market
Kara, Alper; Marqués-Ibáñez, David; Ongena, Steven - 2011
We investigate the effect of securitization activity on banks’ lending standards using evidence from pricing behavior … aggressive on their loan pricing practices. This suggests that securitization activity lead to laxer credit standards …. Macroeconomic factors also play a large role explaining the impact of securitization activity on bank lending standards: banks more …
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Risk transfer with CDOs
Krahnen, Jan Pieter; Wilde, Christian - 2008
securitization. Sound knowledge of the risks involved in securitization transactions is a prerequisite for solid risk management …
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Risk transfer with CDOs
Krahnen, Jan Pieter; Wilde, Christian - 2008
securitization. Sound knowledge of the risks involved in securitization transactions is a prerequisite for solid risk management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269733
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The New Basel Accord: Implications of the Co-existence between the Standardized Approach and the Internal Ratings-based Approach
Rime, Bertrand - 2003
We examine the prudential implications of the co-existence between the standardized approach and the internal ratings-based (IRB) approach, as defined in the new Basle Accord. We consider a model in which sophisticated banks, eligible for the IRB approach, and unsophisticated banks, eligible for...
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