Banks are liquidity brokers: they acquire it at the market in form of deposits and lend it in form of loans. As liquidity is not for free, the costs of its acquisition have to be transferred to those (departments) that lend it. Furthermore, banks take liquidity risk. The costs to hedge this risk...

In dieser Broschüre wird aufgezeigt, wie die Vermögensanlage von öffentlichen Versorgungswerken und Investoren mithilfe von Paris-aligned Benchmarks (PABs) und Climate Transition Benchmarks (CTBs) nachhaltig ausgestaltet werden kann. Sowohl die CTB als auch die PAB zielen auf...

Challenging times, such as the recent financial crisis, appear to cause organizations to change their business reporting. Yet, there is not much evidence of how changes in business reporting were enacted by banks, and there is only little discussion about the extent to which this can be seen and...

We study how a Net Stable Funding Ratio as defined by the Basel Committee in 2014 (NSFR (2014)) would affect the profitability of German banks and their capacity to lend. With a NSFR-model that is partially calibrated against reported NSFRs, we find that 9% of German banks do not comply with the...

We provide a modeling framework for banks' business planning under Basel III. For this purpose, we write banks' planning as formal optimization problem where Basel III - minimum requirements/ratios enter as constraints. We analyze the effect of Basel III on the banks' product mix for a...

We provide a structural framework to study the impact of a macroeconomic shock on the banking sector's lending capacity. Our model consists of three building blocks: first, the evolution of non-bank assets that provide the entrance point for shocks from the real economy into the banking sector....