Regulatory capital for trading book positions includes two components that cover different risks but apply to the same portfolio, one for market risk and one for credit risk. Similar approaches are common in banks’ internal models for economic capital. Although it is known that joint market...

In this paper we relate a bank’s choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing...

1. Einleitung -- 1.1. Diskussion über Neugestaltung der Solvabilitätsvorschriften -- 1.2. Zielsetzung der Ausarbeitung -- 1.3. Struktur und Inhalt der Ausarbeitung -- I: Modelle zur Messung der Solvabilität -- 2. Begriffliche Grundlagen -- 3. Vergleichende Darstellung von Modellen zur Messung...