In addition to the Basel II capital ratio, Basel III requires banks to respect additional ratios, such as leverage ratio, liquidity coverage ratio and net stable funding ratio. Banks are required to be compliant with all four constraints simultaneously. Our article provides a framework for banks...

For more than 30 years, the world's main indices for oil prices – WTI in the US and Brent in Europe – have moved in sync. This changed dramatically in 2011, when WTI started trading at a considerable discount to Brent for almost five years. This disparity violated the “law of one price”...

We develop a metric to measure how far banks are away from regulatory compliance under Basel III. Basel III consists of multiple constraints. Our measure is a portfolio that simultanously covers all constraints and their interdependencies. We apply our measure to a sample of European banks and...

The economic and political developments of the past years show an increasing importance of a possible risk-reducing of the company due to good ESG performance. Our work contributes by examining the impact of relatively better ESG performance of companies on their implied and historical share...

The aim of this working paper is to introduce the reader to the relatively new instrument of AT 1 bonds. For this purpose, the strict regulatory requirements for the instrument class are explained and the capital requirements of banks are outlined. Afterwards, the market for AT 1 bonds is...

The paper models and analyses the dynamics of credit spread curves based on ratings over the period from 2004 to 2021. Using more than 1.5 million data points of individual bonds, instead of using index data, monthly asset swap spread (ASW) curves are constructed for all rating levels. The paper...

Referenzzinssätze spielen als Grundlage für zahlreiche Finanzprodukte eine wichtige Rolle in der Funktionsweise der weltweiten Finanzmärkte. Im Zuge des LIBOR-Skandals ist das Vertrauen in die Robustheit der Sätze erheblich gesunken. Infolgedessen haben Finanzregulierungsbehörden Prinzipien...