The dark side of 'good' corporate governance: compliance-fuelled book-cooking activities
We argue on theoretical grounds that obligatory compliance with stricter financial reporting rules (e.g., the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act) may entail...
Consistent information multivariate density optimizing methodology
The estimation of the profit and loss distribution of a loan portfolio requires the modelling of the portfolio’s multivariate distribution. This...
Conditional probability of default methodology
This paper presents the Conditional Probability of Default (CoPoD) methodology for modelling the probabilities of loan defaults (PoDs) by small and...
Precondition for a Successful Implementation of Supervisors' Prompt Corrective Action: Is There a Case for a Banking Standard in the EU?
Over the past years, several countries around the world have adopted a system of prudential prompt corrective action (PCA). The European Union...
Rent extraction by large shareholders: evidence using dividend policy in the Czech Republic
Using cross-sectional analysis of corporate dividend policy we show that large shareholders extract rents from firms and expropriate minority...
Towards a measure of financial fragility
This paper proposes a measure of financial fragility that is based on eco- nomic welfare in a general equilbrium model calibrated against UK data. The...
Imperfect common knowledge in first generation models of currency crises
First generation models assume that the level of reserves of a Central Bank in a fixed exchange rate regime is common knowledge among consumers, and...
Comparing downside risk measures for heavy tailed distribution
Using regular variation to define heavy tailed distributions, we show that prominent downside risk measures produce similar and con- sistent ranking...
Rare events and annuity market participation
We investigate whether a rare event (like the default of the annuity provider) can explain the annuity market participation puzzle. High risk aversion...
Subadditivity re–examined: the case for value-at-risk
This paper explores the potential for violations of VaR subadditivity both theoretically and by simulations, and finds that for most practical...
The Dynamics of venture capital contracts
We analyze the degree of contract completeness with respect to staging of venture capital investments using a hand-collected German data set of...
On modelling endogenous default
Not only in the classic Arrow-Debreu model, but also in many mainstream macro models, an implicit assumption is that all agents honour their...
