Credit Risk and the Role of Capital Adequacy Regulation

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Credit Risk and the Role of Capital Adequacy Regulation

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Thilo Pausch () (University of Augsburg, Department of Economics)
Peter Welzel () (University of Augsburg, Department of Economics)

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Using the industrial organization approach to the microeconomics of banking we model a large (Monti-Klein) bank which is risk neutral and faces credit uncertainty in its loan business. The impact of capital adequacy regulation and the effect of changes in risk on deposit and loan rates are analyzed. We then show that capital adequacy regulation induces the bank to behave as if it were risk averse. Finally, we examine risk management with credit derivatives in the framework of the proposed New Basel Capital Accord where such hedging operations are explicitly accounted as reducing the risk position of a bank. In this environment separation and full hedge results are derived.

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Paper provided by Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics in its series Discussion Paper Series with number 224.

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Thilo Pausch, 2003. "Bank's Assets and Liabilities Management with Multiple Sources of Risk," Discussion Paper Series 245, Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics. [Downloadable!]
Udo Broll & Thilo Pausch & Peter Welzel, 2002. "Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives in Banking," Discussion Paper Series 228, Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics. [Downloadable!]
Udo Broll & Peter Welzel, 2002. "Bankrisiko und Risikosteuerung mit Derivaten," Discussion Paper Series 227, Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics. [Downloadable!]
Thilo Pausch & Gerhard Schweimayer, 2004. "Hedging with Credit Derivatives and its Strategic Role in Banking Competition," Discussion Paper Series 260, Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics. [Downloadable!]
Thilo Pausch, 2003. "The Lender-Borrower Relationship with Risk Averse Lenders," Discussion Paper Series 244, Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics. [Downloadable!]
Udo Broll & Peter Welzel, 2002. "Risikomanagement mit Kreditoptionen," Discussion Paper Series 231, Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics. [Downloadable!]
Thilo Pausch, 2005. "Credit Risk, Credit Rationing, and the Role of Banks: The Case of Risk Averse Lenders," Discussion Paper Series 271, Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics. [Downloadable!]

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