In this article we simulate how much the capital of a parent bank must be increased above the minimum capital requirement applying to the parent alone as a result of a requirement being imposed on the banking group as a whole, and how the probability of failure of a subsidiary and the group...

The concept of an optimum-currency-area (or OCA) index has often been used to assess the relative proximity of various pairs of economies to the ideal of an optimum currency area. In this paper, we suggest improving the construction of the index in several ways, primarily by making it sensitive...

This article is concerned with the regulation of banks on the basis of theirdifferent degrees of systemic importance. It proposes a specific approach to calculating a bank's systemic importance to the domestic banking sector. The article goes on to propose a method for assessing the additional...

We analyze and quantify the determinants of asymmetric shocks showing up in the form of medium-term real exchange rate (RER) changes. First, we discuss sources of asymmetric shocks causing exchange rate variability and the role of the RER as a shock generator. Second, we use data for 21 advanced...

Regulators in many countries are currently considering ways to impose domestic systemic importance-based capital requirements on banks. Aiming to assist these considerations, this article discusses a number of issues concerning the calculation of a bank's systemic importance to the domestic...

In the period 1998-2007, inflation very often deviated from inflation targets of the Czech National Bank, most of these deviations being in the direction of undershooting the targeted level. In this paper, a purely statistical, model-independent procedure is used to search for an answer to the...