Welche Einflussfaktoren bestimmen die Spreadentwicklung im Kapitalmarktsegment der Banken im Verlauf der Finanzkrise? Unter Verwendung der Regressionsanalyse werden die Determinanten von Asset-Swap- (ASW) und Credit-Default-Swap- (CDS) Spreads ausgewählter europäischer Banken im Zeitraum April...

Banks are liquidity brokers: they acquire it at the market in form of deposits and lend it in form of loans. As liquidity is not for free, the costs of its acquisition have to be transferred to those (departments) that lend it. Furthermore, banks take liquidity risk. The costs to hedge this risk...

In den letzten Jahren hat sich eine Vielzahl von Produkten entwickelt, bei denen der Zahlungszeitpunkt und die Feststellung des Zinssatzes von den natürlichenGewohnheiten des Marktes abweichen. Ein typisches Instrument sind LIBORZahlungen, deren Zinsfestellung nicht am Anfang, sondern am Ende...

The year 2000 started the evolution of the German market for Structured Products with incorporated Hedge Fund exposures. This paper provides an extensive commentary on this fast growing segment. Our analysis suggests that the market for existing products is affected by significant heterogeneity....

Loss Given Default (LGD) is a major element for pricing credits and bonds. As there has been a substantial amount of research during the last years, this paper aims to give an overview. Initially, defaults and recovery definitions for credits and the differences to bonds are discussed. A survey...

In den letzten Jahren hat eine intensive Entwicklung von Kreditderivaten begonnen.Im Kern soll hiermit die Möglichkeit geschaffen werden, das Adressenrisiko einer Transaktion von ihrem Marktrisiko zu separieren und es damit einzeln handelbar, aber insbesondere auch hedgebar zu machen. Die...

Some traders estimate precipitation derivatives to have a potential which increases even that of temperature derivatives. Precipitation derivatives can be used both for hedging and marketing purposes for a diverse number of possible end users. However, the complex way of measuring precipitation,...

Merger and acquisition activities can have a strong impact on the capital structure of the companies involved and therefore on the value of debt. This paper discusses the role of covenants within debt contracts. Using the Real Option approach to quantify the implications of covenants on the...

This paper shows that Economic Value Added (EVA) can be used to optimize the performance of european share investements. Investing in the top third relative EVA performers, leads to a significant outperformance. This is true for market and sektor investments. The best results were found for...

Underlyings of weather derivatives in Europe tend to be average temperature compared to heating (cooling) day in the USA because of a smaller volatility in temperature. The derivatives are priced using as burn analysis. Using a gas utility company, hedging techniques are shown using temperature...