We present an analysis of VaR forecasts and P&L-series of all 13 German banks that used internal models for regulatory purposes in the year 2001. To this end, we introduce the notion of well-behaved forecast systems. Furthermore, we provide a series of statistical tools to perform our analyses....

We present an analysis of VaR forecasts and Pamp;L-series of all 13 German banks that used internal models for regulatory purposes in the year 2001. We introduce the notion of well-behaved forecast systems, that allows to use more powerful inference on the level of conservativenessof VaR...

This paper presents an analysis of tax clientele effects in the German government bond market from the viewpoint of private investors. The methods developed here allow the identification of bonds that are over-valued from the viewpoint of a certain tax class, the estimation of tax-specific term...