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This study examines the determinants of capital adequacy and voluntary capital buffers among microfinance institutions (MFIs). We apply the two-stage least squares (2SLS) with instrumental variables to account for endogeneity. Using quarterly panel data of 439 MFIs in Ghana covering the period...
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internal rating systems. We also examine the potential gains from combining the output of multiple models. We find that the … failing firms are high enough. Finally, the number of classes in an internal rating system appears to be more important than …
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looking and risk based. However, it notes that major credit rating agencies continue to maintain relatively low ratings for …
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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557140
This study assesses the overall impact on credit of the financial regulatory reforms in Europe, Japan, and the United States. Long-term cost estimates are provided for Basel III capital and liquidity requirements, derivatives reforms, and higher taxes and fees. Overall, average lending rates in...
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by means of the credit risk standardized approach (CRSA) instead of the more sophisticated internal rating based approach …-banks cannot benefit from this provision as only around 100 non-financial companies have the required published agency rating on … supervisory recognized rating available. Projected to the total population of German corporates, the exposures of around 9,000 of …
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This paper investigates how lenders react to borrowers' rating changes under heterogeneous conditions and different … to rating upgrades, even when the latter are associated with a reduction in risk weights for corporate loans. The …
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The incremental risk charge (IRC) is a new regulatory requirement from the Basel Committee in response to the recent financial crisis. Notably few models for IRC have been developed in the literature. This paper proposes a methodology consisting of two Monte Carlo simulations. The first Monte...
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Operational risk management in banking has assumed such importance during the last decades. It has become increasingly important to measure, manage, and assess the impact of operational risk in the economics of banking. The paper aims to demonstrate how an effective operational risk management...
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