Fifteen years after the introduction of the Basel II Accord, which thoroughly revised the capital framework for banks, internal models are a full part of the supervisory toolkit and the risk management framework of financial institutions. The debate around models has gone through different...

Fifteen years after the introduction of the Basel II Accord, which thoroughly revised the capital framework for banks, internal models are a full part of the supervisory toolkit and the risk management framework of financial institutions. The debate around models has gone through different...

Il Credito Cooperativo giunge alla sfida di Basilea 3 dopo un decennio di profonde trasformazioni, che hanno influito sulle politiche creditizie e sulle modalità di gestione dei rischi; i fattori congiunturali continuano a esercitare pressione sul modello di business tradizionale. La prossima...

Many studies have questioned the reliability of banks' calculations of risk-weighted assets (RWA) for prudential purposes. The significant divergences found at international level are taken as indicating excessive subjectivity in the current rules governing banks' risk measurement and capital...

In December 2010 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a set of new regulations for banks in response to the financial crisis. This paper aims at evaluating the possible effects of the new framework on banks' available regulatory capital and risk-weighted assets and assessing...

The level of capital requirement generated by the IRB approach depends crucially on the asset correlation, a parameter that enters the regulatory risk weight formula and is determined by the Regulators. Several studies have estimated the asset correlations and found that the empirical values are...