Operationelle Risiken stellen für Banken nach dem Kreditrisiko die zweitwichtigste Risikokategoriedar. Ein effektives Risikomanagement der operationellen Risiken dürfte in Zukunft einentscheidender Wettbewerbsfaktor sein. Im Rahmen der Neuregelung der bankaufsichtsrechtlichenVorgaben gemäß...

In 2004 the Basel Committee published an extensive revision of the capital charges whichcreates more risk sensitive capital requirements for banks. The New Accord called “InternationalConvergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standard” provides in its first pillarfor a finer measurement...

The paper discusses the impact of the Basel II Accord on the financing of smalland medium size enterprises (SME) in Austria. Although the Basel II Accord hasnot been established yet, the study tries to evaluate the expected impact of theBasel II Accord on SMEs, on the bases of the current...

Die Stabilität des Finanzsystemsist gegenwärtig durch spekulativeÜbertreibungen auf den Kredit- undVerbriefungsmärkten gefährdet. Damitgehen erhebliche Belastungen für diereale Wirtschaftsentwicklung einher.Mehr Transparenz und Basel II werdendas zentrale Problem, das Herdenverhaltenauf...

Stress testing has become a crucial point on the Basel II agenda, mainly as Pillar I estimatesdo not explicitly take portfolio concentration into account. We start from the credit portfolioof the German pension insurer being a cross-sectional representation of the German economyand subsequently...

This paper sets out to help explain why estimates of asset correlations based on equityprices tend to be considerably higher than estimates based on default rates. Resolving thisempirical puzzle is highly important because, rstly, asset correlations are a key driver ofcredit risk and, secondly,...

The paper deals with the implementation and the consequences of Basel II. Itaddresses the questions of why and how Basel II is implemented differently indifferent countries and world regions. In order to deal with these questions a globaloverview of the processes of implementation is provided....

Die Diskussion um die Entwicklung eines einheitlichen europäischen Binnenmarktes fürFinanzdienstleistungen befindet sich mittlerweile in einem fortgeschrittenen Stadium. In diesemZusammenhang ist auf den Komplex der normativen Anforderungen an die Finanzinstitute hinzuweisen,die im Jahr 2004...

Like all the member states of the European Union, Slovenia was also obligated to implement EUDirectives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC into national banking legislative. Basel II rules were implementedinto Slovenian legislative in December 2006 and have been valid from 1st of January 2007. Before...

In addition to “classical” approaches, such as the Gaussian CreditMetrics or Basel II model, recentlythe use of other copulas has been proposed in the area of credit risk for modeling loss distributions,particularly T copulas which lead to fatter tails ceteris paribus. As an amendment to...