Do you believe that bank shareholder equity provides an indefinitely lasting source of funding which covers for (residual) risk and loss-absorption? Our innovative approach clarifies and disentangles actual shareholder contribution to bank equity. This case study applies it to Deutsche Bank, a...

Different approaches to accounting involve different, often implicit, assumptions as to the functioning of the monetary and financial system. In particular, fair value accounting, unlike historical cost accounting, relies on the assumption of asset (and liability) market liquidity, and may...

We analyse the effects of changes in regulatory capital requirements under Basel III on the dynamics of bank shareholder equity. Evidence from managerial and regulatory reports shows that bank shareholder equity stands between Basel III regulatory capital requirements and managerial pursuit of...

The policy contribution aims to overcome the unfertile debate that opposes the notions of risk-sharing and risk reduction, by examining the concepts of economic solidarity and responsibility, with a particular focus on the Banking Union and some of its unresolved crisis management issues. The...

Contemporaneous banking theory appear to understand financial institutions as intermediaries, neglecting some facts featuring modern banking: monetary financial institutions issue claims which function as money; they facilitate payments across agents in the economy over time and space; they...