This paper introduces a stress test of the corporate credit portfolios of 24 large German banks by a two-stage approach: First, a macro-econometric model is used to forecast the impact of a substantial increase of the user cost of business capital for firms worldwide on three particularly...

In attempting to promote bank stability, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2006) provides a framework that seeks to control the amount of tail risk that large banks take in their trading books. However, banks around the world suffered sizeable trading losses during the recent crisis....

In der vorliegenden Arbeit greift der Verfasser eine besonders herausgehobene und viel diskutierte Ausprägung der Bankregulierung auf, nämlich die Eigenkapitalnormen, und stellt diesen Aspekt in den weiteren Kontext politökonomischer Argumentation. -- Burghofs Erklärungsansätze für die...