This paper examines how Basel III capital reforms affected bank lending in Ger- many. We focus on the increase of minimum risk-based capital requirements and the introduction of the leverage ratio. The announcement of stricter risk-based capital regulation significantly affected low capitalized...

In recent years new methods and models have been developed to quantify credit risk on a portfolio basis. CreditMetrics (tm), CreditRisk+, CreditPortfolio (tm) are among the best known and many others are similar to them. At first glance they are quite different in their approaches and...

During the last years the lending business has come under considerable competitive pressure and bank managers often express concern regarding its profitability vis-a-vis other activities. This paper tries to empirically identify factors that are able to explain the financial performance of bank...

Seit einigen Jahren werden die Auswirkungen, die von der Neufassung der Eigenkapitalvorschriften für Kreditinstitute durch den Baseler Ausschuss für Bankenaufsicht ('Basel II') auf die Kreditfinanzierung speziell kleinerer Unternehmen ausgehen, intensiv diskutiert. Im Fokus steht dabei stets...