lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. CDS contracts may be used to hedge a bank's credit risk exposure … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk … credit risk. Under the substitution approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its …

significantly improved bank capital levels despite the widespread window-dressing practice. In addition, the well …

Recent literature suggests that regulatory risk measures do not adequately capture the actual economic risk of bank … risk sensitivity, i.e., the response of Basel risk weights to asset volatility as our measure of a bank's asset portfolio …

We present a model where bank assets are a portfolio of risky debt claims and analyze stockholders' risk …-taking behavior while considering the strategic interaction between debtors and creditors. We find that: (1) as the leverage of a bank … demonstrates that an increase in comovement of a loan portfolio increases the bank's cost of default directly, we find that the …

provisions estimate of banks. While bank credit risk teams are sometimes mesmerised by the short-term benefits of provisions … games, they do not care if their behaviour destroys bank value and the informativeness of loan loss provisioning estimates …. While it is not difficult for bank managers and analysts to understand that the provisioning process is subject to gaming …

This paper offers novel evidence on the impact of raising bank capital requirements in the context of an emerging … market: Peru. Using quarterly bank-level data and exploiting the adoption of bank-specific capital buffers, we find that … higher capital requirements have a short-lived, negative impact on bank credit in Peru, although this effect becomes …