Banks are essential for commerce and for companies in general, as they are responsible for financing operations, offering credit and investing in start-ups, thus moving our economy with the criterion of the invisible hand, "laissez faire, laissez passer" by Adam Smith.Banks have been marked by a...

This paper investigates the impact of international swap lines on stock returns using data from banks in emerging markets. The analysis shows that swap lines by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) had a positive impact on bank stocks in Central and Eastern Europe. It then highlights the importance of...

Behavioral economics documents the importance of status and self-image concerns in the workplace, but is largely silent about how to instrumentalize them to induce effort. Awards - widespread in the corporate sector and elsewhere - are motivators that derive their value from such social...

Vor diesem Hintergrund widmet sich der vorliegende Forschungsbericht dem Management von Reputationsrisiken in Banken. Ziel im Teil A ist es zunächst, Reputationsrisiken zu definieren und deren Bedeutung aufzuzeigen. Im Anschluss daran wird im Teil B dargelegt, in welcher Art und Weise für das...

In recent years, regulators have increased their focus on the capital adequacy of banking institutions to enhance the stability of the financial system. The purpose of the present paper is to shed some light on whether and how Swiss Banks react to constraints placed by the regulator on their...

In this paper, we test for the presence of market discipline in the Swiss deposit market. In particular, we examine whether depositors monitor their banks and withdraw their savings deposits whenever the fundamentals of their bank are no longer satisfactory. We use a panel of bank-specific data...

This paper examines the production structure of Swiss banks in the period 1996-99. Using a variety of output specifications, we find evidence of large relative inefficiencies across Swiss banks. The results show the importance of accounting for the broad range of activities that universal banks...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between changes in risk and changes in leverage for a panel of Swiss banks. Using market data for risk and both accounting and market data for capital for the period between 1990 and 2002, we find a positive correlation between changes in capital and...