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The dark side of bank wholesale funding
Huang, Rocco; Ratnovski, Lev - 2010
Banks increasingly use short-term wholesale funds to supplement traditional retail deposits. Existing literature mainly points to the "bright side" of wholesale funding: sophisticated financiers can monitor banks, disciplining bad but refinancing good ones. This paper models a "dark side" of...
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Bank's Assets and Liabilities Management with Multiple Sources of Risk
Pausch, Thilo - 2003
The industrial organization approach to banking is applied to analyze theeffects of the introduction of joint credit and interbank rate risk on the optimaldecisions on deposits and loans of a competitive bank. It is found that dueto the introduction of both sources of risk there appear direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273129
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Risikosteuerung in Krisenzeiten: Warum die Risikomessung in Banken nicht funktioniert hat
Hölscher, Reinhold; Kremers, Markus - 2009
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The great liquidity freeze: What does it mean for international banking?
Domanski, Dietrich; Turner, Philip - 2011
In mid-September 2008, following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, international interbank markets froze and interbank lending beyond very short maturities virtually evaporated. Despite massive central bank support operations and purchases of key assets, many financial markets remained impaired...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305454
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Die Behandlung der operationellen Risiken nach Basel II: Ein Anreiz zur Verbesserung des Risikomanagements?
Rünger, Petra; Walther, Ursula - 2004
Risikomanagement der operationellen Risiken dürfte in Zukunft ein entscheidender Wettbewerbsfaktor sein. Im Rahmen der Neuregelung der … bankaufsichtsrechtlichen Vorgaben gemäß Basel II werden sowohl eine Eigenkapitalunterlegung als auch qualitative Vorgaben zum Risikomanagement … dieser Risikoklasse neu eingeführt. Erklärtes Ziel ist es, Anreize für ein verbessertes Risikomanagement zu setzen. Die …
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Management of FX settlement risk in Hungary (Report II): Payments and securities settlements
Tanai, Eszter - 2008
[...] The objective of this study is to analyse - relying on 2006 data - FX settlement risk that may arise in the domestic banking system under its current operations, and to chart the changes which took place after 2000, covering improvements and, if necessary, formulating (new) recommendations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322397
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Regulatory solutions to bank loans procyclicality: Is the cure worse than the illness?
Balzarotti, Verónica; Anastasi, Alejandra - 2010
The impact of the business cycle on banks' internally generated cash flow is an important driver in the pro-cyclical dynamics of the traditional banking business and yet the issue has been understated in the discussion on counter-cyclical regulations. Considerable attention has been given to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325091
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Financial intermediary leverage and value-at-risk
Adrian, Tobias; Shin, Hyun Song - 2008
We study a contracting model of leverage and balance sheet size for financial intermediaries that fund their activities through collateralized borrowing. Leverage and balance sheet size increase together when measured risks decrease. When the loss distribution is exponential, the behavior of...
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