Discussion of “Elicitability and backtesting: Perspectives for banking regulation”

Coherence and elicitability

The risk of a financial position is usually summarized by a risk measure. As this risk measure has to be estimated from historical data, it is important to be able to verify and compare competing estimation procedures. In statistical decision theory, risk measures for which such verification and comparison is possible, are called elicitable. It is known that quantile based risk measures such as...

Summary, Discussion and Perspectives

Comparative Analysis of Islamic Banking Supervision and Regulation Development

The paper highlights gaps in key areas of legislation, regulation and supervision, standard-setting of Shari’ah-compliance and pinpoints areas where improvement is desirable to ensure stability in the Islamic banking and finance sector. The comparative analysis focuses on 11 selected Muslim countries (Malaysia, Iran, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Sudan, Kuwait, U.A.E ...

diagnostic and developmental potentials of dynamic assessment for writing skill

این پایان نامه بدنبال بررسی کاربرد ارزیابی مستمر در یک محیط یادگیری زبان دوم از طریق طرح چهار سوال تحقیق زیر بود: (1) درک توانایی های فراگیران زمانیکه که از طریق برآورد عملکرد مستقل آنها امکان پذیر نباشد اما در طول جلسات ارزیابی مستمر مشخص شوند; (2) امکان تقویت توانایی های فراگیران از طریق ارزیابی مستمر; (3) سودمندی ارزیابی مستمر در هدایت آموزش فردی به سمتی که به منطقه ی تقریبی رشد افراد حساس ا...

Discussion of The Economics of Shadow Banking

The paper by Manmohan Singh covers a lot of ground, and lays out a number of very interesting issues about the nature of the shadow banking sector, and the extent to which the activities of banks and non-banks are interrelated. In particular, it points out that, in addition to deposits, a significant share of bank lending is ultimately funded by non-banks. This funding can be described as ‘indi...