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How will Basel II affect bank lending to emerging markets? : An analysis based on German bank level data /Thilo Liebig ...

Liebig, Thilo; Porath, Daniel; Weder, Beatrice; Wedow, … - 2004

This paper investigates whether the new Basel Accord will induce a change in bank lending to emerging markets using a comprehensive new data set on German banks` foreign exposure. We test two interlinked hypotheses on the conditions under which the change in the regulatory capital would leave...

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German bank lending during emerging market crises : a bank level analysis

Heid, Frank; Nestmann, Thorsten; Weder, Beatrice; … - 2004

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Systematic risk of CDOs and CDO arbitrage

Hamerle, Alfred; Liebig, Thilo; Schropp, Hans-Jochen - 2009

"Arbitrage CDOs" have recorded an explosive growth during the years before the outbreak of the financial crisis. In the present paper we discuss potential sources of such arbitrage opportunities, in particular arbitrage gains due to mispricing. For this purpose we examine the risk profiles of...

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Long-run links among money, prices, and output : world-wide evidence

Herwartz, Helmut; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2001

Regarding inflation as being a monetary phenomenon in the long-run is a widely-held view in modern macro economics. We analyse this topic by means of a P-star model. Based on the quantity theory of money, this approach explains inflation via a supposed equilibrium price level (P-star), which...

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Credit risk factor modeling and the Basel II IRB approach

Hamerle, Alfred (contributor); Liebig, Thilo (contributor); … - 2003

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Forecasting credit portfolio risk

Hamerle, Alfred (contributor); Liebig, Thilo (contributor); … - 2004

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Does capital regulation matter for bank behaviour : evidence for German savings banks

Heid, Frank (contributor); Porath, Daniel (contributor); … - 2004

The aim of this paper is to assess how German savings banks adjust capital and risk under capital regulation. We estimate a modified version of the model developed by Shrieves and Dahl (1992). This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. First, we test the capital buffer theory...

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Accounting for distress in bank mergers

Koetter, Michael; Bos, Jaap W. B.; Heid, Frank; Kool, … - 2005

The inability of most bank merger studies to control for hidden bailouts may lead to biased results. In this study, we employ a unique data set of approximately 1,000 mergers to analyze the determinants of bank mergers. We use data on the regulatory intervention history to distinguish between...

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Incorporating prediction and estimation risk in point-in-time credit portfolio models

Hamerle, Alfred; Knapp, Michael; Liebig, Thilo; … - 2005

In this paper we focus on the analysis of the effect of prediction and estimation risk on the loss distribution, risk … parameters for the estimation of probability of default or asset correlation are not available, and usually have to be estimated … using historical data. The incorporation of prediction and estimation risk generally leads to broader loss distributions and …

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Inefficient or just different? : Effects of heterogeneity on bank efficiency scores

Bos, Jaap W. B.; Heid, Frank; Koetter, Michael; Kolari, … - 2005

We motivate the formulation of market equilibria as a mixed complementarity problem (MCP) in order to bridge the gap between bottom-up energy system models and top-down general equilibrium models for energy policy analysis. Our objective is primarily pedagogic. We first lay out that the MCP...

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