Central bank communication has become a crucial tool for steering the monetary policy stance and shaping the outlook of market participants. Traditionally, analyzing central bank communication required substantial human effort, expertise, and resources, making the process time-consuming. The...

Die Auswirkungen ausgewählter Wirkungskanäle auf die Veränderung des Zinsergebnisses für das restliche Jahr 2024 der deutschen Banken sollen abgeschätzt werden. Dabei werden die Effekte durch Umschichtungen von Sichteinlagen in Termineinlagen sowie Preiseffekte und Volumeneffekte durch...

Government bond markets play a critical role in the smooth functioning of the financial system, in the conduct and transmission of monetary policy and in the economy as a whole. Maintaining resilient government bond markets is fundamental for policymakers and authorities. This note examines the...

We study the credit risk of banks in Germany from lending to non-financial firms. We model changes in Expected Credit Loss, which is derived from the guidelines in the IFRS 9 accounting standard. We map the accounting model to a dataset with individual loans as the unit of observation...