Financial Stability, New Macro Prudential Arrangements and Shadow Banking: Regulatory Arbitrage and Stringent Basel III Regulations

Regulatory Arrangements, Financial Stability, and Regulatory Reform

Determinants of Banking System Stability: A Macro-Prudential Analysis

Over the past two decades, Germany experienced several periods of banking system instability rather than full-blown banking system crises. In this paper we introduce a continuous and forward-looking stability indicator for the banking system based on information on all financial institutions in Germany between 1995 and 2010. Explaining this measure by means of panel regression techniques, we id...

Macro-prudential and financial stability statistics to improve financial analysis of exposures and risk transfers

In fact, looking only at the level of an individual bank's balance sheet, the analysis and evaluation of risk exposures have become considerably more complex. First, technology and modeling advances have added complex products to banks' traditional exposures thereby complicating risk evaluation. Second, the evolution of banking activities and business strategies has meant that the credit risk o...

Risk Management Framework in Islamic Banking: Basel II and III, Challenges and Implications in Islamic Banking

The time to fix the roof is when the sun is shining risk management has not been uppermost on the Islamic banking sector’s agenda in recent years. It is crucial for Islamic banks (IBs) to have comprehensive risk management framework as there is growing realization among IBs that sustainable growth critically depends on the development of a comprehensive risk management framework. Islamic b...

Financial liberalization, prudential supervision, and the onset of banking crises

We examine what is perceived as one of the main culprits in the occurrence of banking crises: financial liberalization. As is typically argued, if liberalization is accompanied by insufficient prudential supervision of the banking sector, it will result in excessive risk taking by financial intermediaries and a subsequent crisis. Having evaluated the empirical validity of this hypothesis, we co...