The global financial crisis has confirmed the global regulatory mechanism weakness in the prevention of the causes and consequences in stress situations. As an expression of inadequacy, Basel Committee designed Basel III standard as a new regulatory framework for banks. Its implementation...

The emergence of so-called "decentralised finance" (DeFi) and a shadow financial system of cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers raises the challenge of how to apply technology-neutral regulation so that similar risks are subject to the same rules. This paper makes the case for...

This paper examines how Basel III capital reforms affected bank lending in Ger- many. We focus on the increase of minimum risk-based capital requirements and the introduction of the leverage ratio. The announcement of stricter risk-based capital regulation significantly affected low capitalized...

Im Januar 2019 veröffentlichte der Baseler Ausschuss für Bankenaufsicht eine revidierte Fassung der Mindestanforderungen an Eigenkapital für Marktrisiken, die am 01.01.2023 in Kraft treten wird. Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem auf Sensitivitäten basierenden Standardansatz und dem...

Why do governments in some developing countries implement international standards, while others do not? Focusing on the politics of bank regulation, this book develops a new framework to explain regulatory interdependence between countries in the core and the periphery of the global financial...