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Banks typically determine their capital levels by separately analysing credit and interest rate risk, but the …
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This paper describes the first thorough analysis of the interest risk of German banks on an individual bank level. We … develop a new method that is based on time series of accountingbased data to quantify the interest risk of banks and apply it … to analyze the German banking system. We find evidence that our model yields a significantly better fit of banks …
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We use a unique dataset of German banks' exposure to interest rate risk to derive the following statements about their … income. Across banks, however, the earnings from term transformation do not seem to be a decisive factor for the interest …
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We study the functioning of secured and unsecured inter-bank markets in the presence of credit risk. The model generates empirical predictions that are in line with developments during the 2007-2009 financial crises. Interest rates decouple across secured and unsecured markets following an...
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This paper decomposes the explained part of the CDS spread changes of 31 listed euro area banks according to various …
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-specific vulnerabilities contributing to the subsequent declines in banks' stock returns. We find that uninsured deposits, unrealized losses in … of liquid securities did not help mitigate the negative spillovers. Interestingly, banks whose stocks performed worse … rate hikes nor risks linked to bank size. While mid-sized banks experienced particular stress immediately after the SVB …
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Systemic risk now occupies centre stage in discussions of bank regulatory reform. Systemic risk is often seen as a problem of size, operational complexity, interconnectivity and contagion. It is less often discussed in terms of the institutional framework of legal rules and principles within...
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wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the … manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific … shareholders may not be socially optimal in banks. …
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is particularly true with credit derivatives which are usually OTC contracts between banks as buyers and sellers of … banks? loan granting and deposit taking activities. …
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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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