Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62690 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 2001,55
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
Starting from the objective of banking supervision - to minimize the overall costs of banking to the general public - we show that the current standard of quantifying market risk is flawed. It is perfectly aligned with the interests of banks' shareholders and management, but not with the interests of the general public. This is unsatisfactory from a normative point of view, as significant public resources are used for banking supervision.
Subjects: 
VaR
banking regulation
supervision
risk measures
Basel Accord
JEL: 
K2
G2
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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