In Germany, more than 95% of the credit institutions report their regulatory capital requirements for counterparty risk by means of the credit risk standardized approach (CRSA) instead of the more sophisticated internal rating based approach (IRBA). Though the CRSA allows a partially risk...

This contribution presents and discusses main results of a new survey on the assessment of supervisory quality among German banks in 2010. In particular, it is analyzed if and how supervised banks' perception of the quality of supervisory authorities and their instruments has changed due to the...

The globe is still far away from a consistent implementation of a fully-fledged harmonized banking regulatory framework. The reason for this heterogeneity mainly results from (a) historically grown and hence different country-specific traditions in banking regulation and supervision, (b)...