Under the new Capital Accord, banks choose between two different types of risk management systems, the standard or the internal rating based approach. The paper considers how a bank's preference for a risk management system is affected by the presence of supervision by bank regulators. The model...

Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die ökonomische Analyse der Regelungen zur Kreditvergabe an Unternehmen der Neuen Basler Eigenkapitalvereinbarung in der Version vom Januar 2001 („Basel II”). Der grundlegende Unterschied zwischen diesem Regulierungsentwurf und der momentan gültigen...

SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) took the opportunity of the first anniversary of this new institution to organise a joint conference in Berlin on 8-9 November 2011. The purpose of this event was...

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, there is interest in reforming bank regulation such that capital requirements are more closely linked to a bank's contribution to the overall risk of the financial system. In our paper we compare alternative mechanisms for allocating the overall risk of...