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This paper provides evidence for regulatory arbitrage within the class of assetbacked securities (ABS) based on individual asset holding data of German banks. I find that those banks operating with tight regulatory constraints pick the securities with the highest yield and lowest collateral...
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requirements, using financial data of the Swiss systemically important bank UBS. It can be shown that the leverage ratio …
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Business cycles imply liquidity risks for banks. This paper explores how these risks influence bank lending over the … cycle. With forward-looking banks, lending cycles, credit booms and busts, or suppressed and highly fragile bank systems can … unpleasant effects on bank lending. Imposing countercyclical capital adequacy ratio may amplify procyclicality or result in …
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quantity and the composition of bank lending. We find that credit supplied by banks that introduced the model-based approach …
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After the destructive impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, many believe that pre-crisis financial market regulation did not take the "big picture" of the system suffciently into account and, subsequently, financial supervision mainly "missed the forest for the trees". As a result, the...
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This paper empirically investigates the impact of internal ratings-based (IRB) approach on the risk weight under Basel II. Assuming increasing cost of raising new capital when the requirement constraint is violated, this paper estimates the difference of unknown risk weight parameters between...
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This paper analyses the effect of soaring demand in the lending market shortly before a fi nancial crisis (hereinafter "credit run"). A credit run affects the asset correlation, which is one of the main parameters in the Internal Ratings-Based Approach (IRBA) of the Basel III framework. In the...
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agreements (repos) was recognized by external capital markets to increase bank risk in the pre-crisis period. In the crisis, we …
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credit and interest rate risk, the way it measures bank capital, and the way it creates countercyclical capital buffers …
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This paper empirically investigates how risk exposure of security holdings affected the optimal choice of total risk weighted asset under Basel II regulation. With costly recapitalization cost, banks optimally choose buffer regulatory capital above the minimum standard. Therefore, security...
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