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preemption of state limits on overdraft fees to study the impact of fee ceilings on low-income households. After preemption …, national banks raise overdraft fees relative to state-chartered banks in affected states. However, banks in affected states … also provide more overdraft credit and bounce a smaller share of checks following preemption. The share of low …
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preemption of state limits on overdraft fees to study the impact of fee ceilings on low-income households. After preemption …, national banks raise overdraft fees relative to state-chartered banks in affected states. However, banks in affected states … also provide more overdraft credit and bounce a smaller share of checks following preemption. The share of low …
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Die Erfahrungen aus der jüngsten Finanzmarktkrise zeigen, dass der gezielten Abschätzung und Steuerung von Kreditrisiken in Banken eine enorme betriebs- und volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung zukommt. Sowohl in der internen Kreditrisikomessung als auch bei den zugehörigen gesetzlichen Vorgaben...
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This paper simulates the minimum capital requirements for the wholesale exposures of a medium-sized bank in each EMU country depending on the credit rating agencies chosen by the bank to risk-weight its exposures in the standardised approach to credit risk in Basel II. Three main results emerge...
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This paper derives indicators of the severity and structure of banking system risk from asymptotic interdependencies between banks’ equity prices. We use new tools available from multivariate extreme value theory to estimate individual banks’ exposure to each other (“contagion risk”) and...
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We study both theoretically and empirically the inter- dependence of lending decisions in different country branches of a multinational bank. First, we model a bank that delegates the management of its foreign unit to a local manager with non-transferable skills. The bank differs from other...
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This paper applies regression analysis to investigate the fundamental factors of the variation of CDS index tranches. The sample comprises daily data on the tranche premia of the European iTraxx and North American CDX index from the start of the market in summer 2004 to January 2008. I estimate...
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In terms of regulatory and economic capital, credit risk is the most significant risk faced by banks. We implement a credit risk model - based on publicly available information - with the aim of developing a tool to monitor credit risk in a sample of large and complex banking groups (LCBGs) in...
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Banks typically determine their capital levels by separately analysing credit and interest rate risk, but the interaction between the two is significant and potentially complex. We develop an integrated economic capital model for a banking book where all exposures are held to maturity. Our...
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