The paper deals with the transmission of monetary policy within the financial sector. The objective is to link an optimizing stochastic model of portfolio decisions by a representative financial institution with a number of features that this optimizing behavior implies for monetary transmission...

This paper examines the parity conditions between assets denominated in different currencies, traded in a well-integrated segment of the international capital market, and derives the consequences for exchange rate expectations. The main objective is to assess the uncovered asset return parity...

This paper reviews the guidelines of "The New Basle Capital Accord" (NBCA) and four internal models of credit risk assessment. We treat them from the point of view of their underlying concepts, the institutional pre-conditions of their implementation and data requirements. We specially focus on...