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"Arbitrage CDOs" have recorded an explosive growth during the years before the outbreak of the financial crisis. In the … present paper we discuss potential sources of such arbitrage opportunities, in particular arbitrage gains due to mispricing … considerably increased sensitivity to systematic risks. This has farreaching consequences for risk management, pricing and …
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Over the term of a securitization transaction, the concept of non-compliance allows a securitizing bank to classify a … allocation. Therefore, non-compliant loans can directly affect transaction performance and the extent of risk transfer achieved … tested and confirmed based on a unique data set. -- Non-compliance ; risk transfer ; securitization …
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in modern financial risk management techniques like Value at Risk. This paper suggests a regression based density …
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Instruments for credit risk transfer arise endogenously from and interact with optimizing behavior of their users. This is particularly true with credit derivatives which are usually OTC contracts between banks as buyers and sellers of credit risk. Recent literature, however, does not account...
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Credit risk associated with interbank lending may lead to domino effects, where the failure of one bank results in the failure of other banks not directly affected by the initial shock. Recent work in economic theory shows that this risk of contagion depends on the precise pattern of interbank...
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weakened by the banks´ liquidity management. …
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This paper offers a comprehensive comparison of the structure of banking and financial markets in the euro area. Based on this, several hypotheses about the role of banks in monetary policy transmission are developed. Many of the predictions that have been proposed for the U.S. are deemed...
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In this paper we stress-test credit portfolios of 28 German banks based on a Mertontype multi-factor credit risk model. The ad-hoc stress scenario is an economic downturn in the automobile industry that constitutes an exceptional but plausible event suggested by historical data. Rather than on a...
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analyzes the determinants of non-interest income and its impact on financial performance and the risk profile of German banks …
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Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks’...
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