This paper explores the extent to which interest risk exposure is priced in bank margins. Our contribution to the literature is twofold: First, we present an extended model of Ho and Saunders (1981) that explicitly captures interest rate risk and returns from maturity transformation. Banks price...

Banking supervision requires regular inspection and assessment of financial institutions. In Germany this task is carried out by the central bank (“Deutsche Bundesbank, BBK”) in cooperation with the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (“Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht,...

This paper provides evidence for regulatory arbitrage within the class of assetbacked securities (ABS) based on individual asset holding data of German banks. I find that those banks operating with tight regulatory constraints pick the securities with the highest yield and lowest collateral...

Der Autor analysiert die theoretische und empirische Preisbeziehung zwischen fixen Aktienindexterminkontrakten auf den gleichen Kontraktgegenstand (DAX) mit unterschiedlicher Fälligkeit. Die Untersuchung dieser Beziehung ist von der empirischen Kapitalmarktforschung bislang mit Hinweis auf die...