Eine wichtige Aufgabe der risikoorientierten Kundenbewertung (oder synonym des wertorientierten Credit Managements) ist, Risiko- und Ertragsinformationen zum Kunden in einer aussagekräftigen Kennzahl zu bündeln. Mit der Zeitdauer des Risikos (ZDdR) diskutiert der Beitrag eine Lösung, die das...

This paper starts with a brief summary on corporate foreign exchange risk management. The second chapter overviews the development of the Rouble-Euro exchange rate in the last decade. The fluctuations of this parity impact significantly the international competitiveness of German and Russian...

The ratings of leading rating agencies are crucial signals for economic agents in capital markets, namely with respect to creditworthiness of companies, banks and governments which place bonds in the market. The increasing role of securitization of loans has reinforced the role of ratings. The...

A standard repurchase agreement between two counterparties is considered to examine the endogenous choice of collateral assets, the feasibility of secured lending, and welfare implications of the central bank’s collateral framework. As an important innovation, we allow for two-sided...

Since the introduction of the European CO2 emissions trading system (EU ETS), the development of CO2 allowance prices is a new risk factor for enterprises taking part in this system. In this paper, we analyze how risk emerging from emissions trading can be considered in the stochastic profit and...

The paper shows the ways of disclosing financial risks by IFRS 7 and certain types of sensitivity analysis. The different possibilities of preparing a sensitivity analysis, such as value at risk are illustrated and their suitability for reporting are faced critically. Following, the manner of...

In this paper we study the asymptotic properties of the canonical plug-in estimates for law-invariant coherent risk measures. Under rather mild conditions not relying on the explicit representation of the risk measure under consideration, we first prove a central limit theorem for independent...

Surveys of corporate risk management document that selective hedging, where managers incorporate their market views into firms' hedging programs, is widespread in the U.S. and other countries. Stulz (1996) argues that selective hedging could enhance the value of firms that possess an information...

We show that managerial overconfidence, which has been found to influence a number of corporate financial decisions, also affects corporate risk management. We find that managers increase their speculative activities using derivatives following speculative gains, while they do not reduce their...

Credit derivatives are the latest in a series of innovations that have had a significant impact on credit markets. Using a micro data set of individual corporate loans, this paper explores whether use of credit derivatives is associated with an increase in bank credit supply. We find evidence...