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This paper suggests a motive for bank mergers that goes beyond alleged and typically unverifiable scale economies: preemtive resolution of banks´ financial distress. Such "distress mergers" can be a significant motivation for mergers because they can foster reorganizations, realize diversification gains, and avoid public attention. However, since none of these potential benefits comes without a cost, the overall assessment of distress mergers is unclear. We conduct an empirical analysis to provide evidence on consequences of distress mergers. The analysis is based on comprehensive data from Germany´s savings and cooperatives banks sectors over the period 1993 to 2001. During this period both sectors faced significant structural problems and superordinate institutions (associations) presumably have engaged in coordinated actions to manage distress mergers. The data comprise 3640 banks and 1484 mergers. Our results suggest that bank mergers as a means of preemtive distress resolution have moderate costs in terms of the economic impact on performance. We do find strong evidence consistent with diversification gains. Thus, distress mergers seem to have benefits without affecting systematic stability adversely.
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Im Rahmen des Value Based Managements sollen alle Manahmen der Unternehmensfhrung auf die Steigerung des intrinsischen Marktwertes des Eigenkapitals ausgerichtet werden. Hauptanwendungsbereiche des Value Based Managements sind die Planung, Performancemessung, Managemententlohnung sowie die Bereichssteuerung. Eine konsequente shareholder-orientierte Steuerung beinhaltet eine adquate Ermittlung von Wertbeitrgen in den einzelnen Anwendungsbereichen. Hierzu dienen insbesondere absolute Wertbeitragskennzahlen in Form von Residualgewinnen. Residualgewinne sind dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Gewinn um eine auf das Gesamtkapital bezogene Capital bzw. Interest Charge reduziert wird. Der magebliche Gewinn sowie das Gesamtkapital ergeben sich, indem die handelsrechtlichen Gren durch mehr oder minder weitreichende Modifikationen angepasst werden. Die Berechnung der Interest Charge erfolgt entweder auf Basis eines risikoangepassten Zinssatzes oder auf Basis eines risikofreien Zinssatzes. In der Praxis finden sich zahlreiche unterschiedliche Residualgewinnkonzepte, die sich insbesondere durch die jeweils charakteristischen Modifikationen und durch den verwendeten Zinssatz zur Berechnung der Kapitalkosten unterscheiden.1) Herkmmliche Konzepte zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass die Interest Charge auf Basis eines risikoangepassten Zinssatzes berechnet wird. Das in Velthuis (2003c) theoretisch entworfene und von der KPMG in der Praxis umgesetzte Konzept Earnings less Riskfree Interest Charge, ERIC , ist hingegen dadurch charakterisiert, dass zur Berechnung der Interest Charge ein risikofreier Zinssatz verwendet wird. Ferner werden Modifikationen nur insofern vorgenommen, als dass eine vollstndige Bercksichtigung aller Erfolgskomponenten gewhrleistet wird. Glaubt man den Vertretern herkmmlicher Konzepte, basieren diese Konzepte auf einer hinreichenden theoretischen Fundierung. Diesem Anspruch gengen solche Konzepte tatschlich jedoch nicht, sie zeichnen sich gerade durch eine mangelnde theoretische Fundierung aus.2) In Velthuis (2003c) wird verdeutlicht, dass die in der Praxis verbreitete Vorgehensweise gerade zum Ausweis von Wertbeitrgen fhrt, die inkonsistent mit der Zielsetzung der Shareholder sind. In allen Anwendungsbereichen des VBM zeigt sich nmlich aus theoretischer Sicht die Problematik der VerIm Rahmen des Value Based Managements sollen alle Maßnahmen der Unternehmensführung auf die Steigerung des intrinsischen Marktwertes des Eigenkapitals ausgerichtet werden. Hauptanwendungsbereiche des Value Based Managements sind die Planung, Performancemessung, Managemententlohnung sowie die Bereichssteuerung. Eine konsequente shareholder-orientierte Steuerung beinhaltet eine adäquate Ermittlung von Wertbeiträgen in den einzelnen Anwendungsbereichen. Hierzu dienen insbesondere absolute Wertbeitragskennzahlen in Form von Residualgewinnen. Residualgewinne sind dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Gewinn um eine auf das Gesamtkapital bezogene Capital bzw. Interest Charge reduziert wird. Der maßgebliche Gewinn sowie das Gesamtkapital ergeben sich, indem die handelsrechtlichen Größen durch mehr oder minder weitreichende Modifikationen angepasst werden. Die Berechnung der Interest Charge erfolgt entweder auf Basis eines risikoangepassten Zinssatzes oder auf Basis eines risikofreien Zinssatzes. In der Praxis finden sich zahlreiche unterschiedliche Residualgewinnkonzepte, die sich insbesondere durch die jeweils charakteristischen Modifikationen und durch den verwendeten Zinssatz zur Berechnung der Kapitalkosten unterscheiden.1) Herkömmliche Konzepte zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass die Interest Charge auf Basis eines risikoangepassten Zinssatzes berechnet wird. Das in Velthuis (2003c) theoretisch entworfene und von der KPMG in der Praxis umgesetzte Konzept Earnings less Riskfree Interest Charge, ERIC Ò , ist hingegen dadurch charakterisiert, dass zur Berechnung der Interest Charge ein risikofreier Zinssatz verwendet wird. Ferner werden Modifikationen nur insofern vorgenommen, als dass eine vollständige Berücksichtigung aller Erfolgskomponenten gewährleistet wird. Glaubt man den Vertretern herkömmlicher Konzepte, basieren diese Konzepte auf einer hinreichenden theoretischen Fundierung. Diesem Anspruch genügen solche Konzepte tatsächlich jedoch nicht, sie zeichnen sich gerade durch eine mangelnde theoretische Fundierung aus.2) In Velthuis (2003c) wird verdeutlicht, dass die in der Praxis verbreitete Vorgehensweise gerade zum Ausweis von Wertbeiträgen führt, die inkonsistent mit der Zielsetzung der Shareholder sind. In allen Anwendungsbereichen des VBM zeigt sich nämlich aus theoretischer Sicht die Problematik der Verwendung eines risikoangepassten Zinssatzes zur Berechnung von Kapitalkosten: Schon die Verwendung eines risikoangepassten Kapitalkostensatzes im Rahmen der Planung kann problematisch sein. Die Verwendung risikoangepasster Kapitalkosten als Benchmark bei der Performancemessung ist sogar ganz abzulehnen, und bei der Managemententlohnung ist die Verrechnung von risikoangepassten Kapitalkosten zwingend mit Fehlanreizen verbunden. Aber auch praxisübliche Modifikationen erweisen sich als problematisch, da Erfolgskomponenten nicht bzw. nicht vollständig berücksichtigt werden. Im Gegensatz zu herkömmlichen Konzepten weist das VBM-Konzept ERIC eine tatsächliche theoretische Fundierung auf. In Velthuis (2003c) werden grundlegende theoretische und praktische Anforderungen für die einzelnen Anwendungsbereiche herausgearbeitet und es wird gezeigt, dass ein integriertes VBM-Konzept auf Basis des Residualgewinns ERIC diese Anforderungen stets erfüllt. Ziel dieses Aufsatzes ist es, die Grundkonzeption von ERIC theoretisch weiter zu entwickeln. Während in Velthuis (2003c) stets von einer sehr einfachen Idealwelt ausgegangen wird, soll hier zum einen verdeutlicht werden, wie ein erfolgreiches Value Based Management auf Basis von ERIC in komplexeren und realitätsnäheren Situationen erfolgen kann. Zum anderen gilt es, zusätzliche praktische Problembereiche zu erkennen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten aufzuzeigen. Der Aufsatz ist wie folgt aufgebaut: Zunächst wird gezeigt, wie der Residualgewinn ERIC zu berechnen ist, und es wird ein Überblick über die Anwendungsbereiche gegeben. Anschließend wird die grundlegende Entscheidungssituation für die späteren Darstellungen erörtert und es werden fundamentale Prinzipien des Value Based Managements und ihre Bedeutung für die einzelnen Anwendungsbereichen erläutert. Sodann wird für die einzelnen Bereichen des Value Based Managements, der Planung, Performancemessung, Managemententlohnung und der Bereichssteuerung gezeigt, wie ERIC anzuwenden ist, damit eine tatsächliche Shareholder-Orientierung gewährleistet wird. Die Darstellungen erfolgen dabei jeweils zunächst vor dem Hintergrund einer Idealwelt. In einem zweiten Schritt wird die Entscheidungssituation jeweils modifiziert, um der Realität ein Stück näher zu kommen.
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This paper compares the accuracy of credit ratings of Moody s and Standard&Poors. Based on 11,428 issuer ratings and 350 defaults in several datasets from 1999 to 2003 a slight advantage for the rating system of Moody s is detected. Compared to former research the robustness of the results is increased by using nonparametric bootstrap approaches. Furthermore, robustness checks are made to control for the impact of Watchlist entries, staleness of ratings and the effect of unsolicited ratings on the results.
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This paper investigates the magnitude and the main determinants of share price reactions to buy-back announcements of German corporations. For our comprehensive sample of 224 announcements that took place between May 1998 and April 2003 we find average cumulative abnormal returns around -7.5% for the thirty days preceding the announcement and around +7.0 % for the ten days following the announcement. We regress post-announcement abnormal returns with multiple firm characteristics and provide evidence which supports the undervaluation signaling hypothesis but not the excess cash hypothesis or the tax-efficiency hypothesis. In extending prior empirical work, we also analyze price effects from initial statements of firms that they intend to seek shareholder approval for a buy-back plan. Observed cumulative abnormal returns on this initial date are in excess of 5% implying a total average price effect between 12% and 15% from implementing a buy-back plan. We conjecture that the German regulatory environment is the main reason why market variations to buy-back announcements are much stronger in Germany than in other countries and conclude that initial statements by managers to seek shareholders’ approval for a buy-back plan should also be subject to legal ad-hoc disclosure requirements.
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We show that multi-bank loan pools improve the risk-return profile of banks’ loan business. Banks write simple contracts on the proceeds from pooled loan portfolios, taking into account the free-rider problems in joint loan production. Thus, banks benefit greatly from diversifying credit risk while limiting the efficiency loss due to adverse incentives. We present calibration results that the formation of loan pools reduce the volatility in default rates, proxying for credit risk, of participating banks’ loan portfolios by roughly 70% in our sample. Under reasonable assumptions, the gain in return on equity (in certainty equivalent terms) is around 20 basis points annually.
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When performance measures are used for evaluation purposes, agents have some incentives to learn how their actions affect these measures. We show that the use of imperfect performance measures can cause an agent to devote too many resources (too much effort) to acquiring information. Doing so can be costly to the principal because the agent can use information to game the performance measure to the detriment of the principal. We analyze the impact of endogenous information acquisition on the optimal incentive strength and the quality of the performance measure used.
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A widely recognized paper by Colin Mayer (1988) has led to a profound revision of academic thinking about financing patterns of corporations in different countries. Using flow-of-funds data instead of balance sheet data, Mayer and others who followed his lead found that internal financing is the dominant mode of financing in all countries, that financing patterns do not differ very much between countries and that those differences which still seem to exist are not at all consistent with the common conviction that financial systems can be classified as being either bank-based or capital market-based. This leads to a puzzle insofar as it calls into question the empirical foundation of the widely held belief that there is a correspondence between the financing patterns of corporations on the one side, and the structure of the financial sector and the prevailing corporate governance system in a given country on the other side. The present paper addresses this puzzle on a methodological and an empirical basis. It starts by comparing and analyzing various ways of measuring financial structure and financing patterns and by demonstrating that the surprising empirical results found by studies that relied on net flows are due to a hidden assumption. It then derives an alternative method of measuring financing patterns, which also uses flow-of-funds data, but avoids the questionable assumption. This measurement concept is then applied to patterns of corporate financing in Germany, Japan and the United States. The empirical results, which use an estimation technique for determining gross flows of funds in those cases in which empirical data are not available, are very much in line with the commonly held belief prior to Mayer’s influential contribution and indicate that the financial systems of the three countries do indeed differ from one another in a substantial way, and moreover in a way which is largely in line with the general view of the differences between the financial systems of the countries covered in the present paper.
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Tractable hedging - an implementation of robust hedging strategies : [This Version: March 30, 2004]
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This paper provides a theoretical and numerical analysis of robust hedging strategies in diffusion–type models including stochastic volatility models. A robust hedging strategy avoids any losses as long as the realised volatility stays within a given interval. We focus on the effects of restricting the set of admissible strategies to tractable strategies which are defined as the sum over Gaussian strategies. Although a trivial Gaussian hedge is either not robust or prohibitively expensive, this is not the case for the cheapest tractable robust hedge which consists of two Gaussian hedges for one long and one short position in convex claims which have to be chosen optimally.
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In this study, we develop a technique for estimating a firm’s expected cost of equity capital derived from analyst consensus forecasts and stock prices. Building on the work of Gebhardt/Lee/-Swaminathan (2001) and Easton/Taylor/Shroff/Sougiannis (2002), our approach allows daily estimation, using only publicly available information at that date. We then estimate the expected cost of equity capital at the market, industry and individual firm level using historical German data from 1989-2002 and examine firm characteristics which are systematically related to these estimates. Finally, we demonstrate the applicability of the concept in a contemporary case study for DaimlerChrysler and the European automobile industry.
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Der Bestimmung risikoadäquater Diskontierungssätze kommt bei der Unternehmensbedeutung eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Wird zu deren Bestimmung in der praktischen Anwendung das CAPM verwendet, gilt es dabei, risikolose Zinssätze und Risikoprämien zu bestimmen, für die erwartete Renditen des Marktportfeuilles und Beta-Faktoren als Maßgrößen für das systematische Risiko benötigt werden. Passend zu den zu bewertenden erwarteten Überschussgrößen sollten auch die zur Diskontierung verwendeten Renditeforderungen die im Bewertungszeitpunkt erwarteten künftigen Renditen vergleichbarer Anlagen widerspiegeln. Die weitaus meisten Beiträge zur Operationalisierung des CAPM leiten die Renditeforderungen jedoch aus historischen Kapitalmarktrenditen ab. Wir zeigen in diesem Beitrag auf, wie erwartete künftige Renditen aus beobachtbaren Größen, vor allen den Zinsstrukturkurven und den beobachtbaren Analystenprognosen, zukunftsorientiert abgeleitet werden können. Damit wird eine konzeptionell schlüssigere Bewertung der im Bewertungszeitpunkt erwarteten künftigen Überschüsse mit den zeitgleich erwarteten künftigen Renditen ermöglicht.
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Tests for the existence and the sign of the volatility risk premium are often based on expected option hedging errors. When the hedge is performed under the ideal conditions of continuous trading and correct model specification, the sign of the premium is the same as the sign of the mean hedging error for a large class of stochastic volatility option pricing models. We show, however, that the problems of discrete trading and model mis-specification, which are necessarily present in any empirical study, may cause the standard test to yield unreliable results.
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When options are traded, one can use their prices and price changes to draw inference about the set of risk factors and their risk premia. We analyze tests for the existence and the sign of the market prices of jump risk that are based on option hedging errors. We derive a closed-form solution for the option hedging error and its expectation in a stochastic jump model under continuous trading and correct model specification. Jump risk is structurally different from, e.g., stochastic volatility: there is one market price of risk for each jump size (and not just \emph{the} market price of jump risk). Thus, the expected hedging error cannot identify the exact structure of the compensation for jump risk. Furthermore, we derive closed form solutions for the expected option hedging error under discrete trading and model mis-specification. Compared to the ideal case, the sign of the expected hedging error can change, so that empirical tests based on simplifying assumptions about trading frequency and the model may lead to incorrect conclusions.
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This paper deals with the superhedging of derivatives and with the corresponding price bounds. A static superhedge results in trivial and fully nonparametric price bounds, which can be tightened if there exists a cheaper superhedge in the class of dynamic trading strategies. We focus on European path-independent claims and show under which conditions such an improvement is possible. For a stochastic volatility model with unbounded volatility, we show that a static superhedge is always optimal, and that, additionally, there may be infinitely many dynamic superhedges with the same initial capital. The trivial price bounds are thus the tightest ones. In a model with stochastic jumps or non-negative stochastic interest rates either a static or a dynamic superhedge is optimal. Finally, in a model with unbounded short rates, only a static superhedge is possible.
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What constitutes a financial system in general and the German financial system in particular?
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This paper is one of the two introductory chapters of the book "The German Financial System". It first discusses two issues that have a general bearing on the entire book, and then provides a broad overview of the German financial system. The first general issue is that of clarifying what we mean by the key term "financial system" and, based on this definition, of showing why the financial system of a country is important and what it might be important for. Obviously, a definition of its subject matter and an explanation of its importance are required at the outset of any book. As we will explain in Section II, we use the term "financial system" in a broad sense which sets it clearly apart from the narrower concept of the "financial sector". The second general issue is that of how financial systems are described and analysed. Obviously, the definition of the object of analysis and the method by which the object is to be analysed are closely related to one another. The remainder of the paper provides a general overview of the German financial system. In addition, it is intended to provide a first indication of how the elements of the German financial system are related to each other, and thus to support our claim from Section II that there is indeed some merit in emphasising the systemic features of financial systems in general and of the German financial system in particular. The chapter concludes by briefly comparing the general characteristics of the German financial system with those of the financial systems of other advanced industrial countries, and taking a brief look at recent developments which might undermine the "systemic" character of the German financial system.
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Capital rationing is an empirically well-documented phenomenon. This constraint requires managers to make investment decisions between mutually exclusive investment opportunities. In a multiperiod agency setting, this paper analyses accounting rules that provide managerial incentives for efficient project selection. In order to motivate a shortsighted manager to expend unobservable effort and to make efficient investment decisions, the principal sets up an incentive scheme based on residual income (e.g. EVATM). The paper shows that income smoothing generates a trade-off between agency costs resulting from differences in discount rates and the costs associated with the "congruity" of residual earnings.
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An economy in which deposit-taking banks of a Diamond/ Dybvig style and an asset market coexist is modelled. Firstly, within this framework we characterize distinct financial systems depending on the fraction of households with direct investment opportunities that are less efficient than those available to banks. With this fraction comparatively low, the evolving financial system can be interpreted as market-oriented. In this system, banks only provide efficient investment opportunities to households with inferior investment alternatives. Banks are not active in the secondary financial market nor do they provide any liquidity insurance to their depositors. Households participate to a large extent in the primary as well as in the secondary financial markets. In the other case of a relatively high fraction of households with inefficient direct investment opportunities, a bank-dominated financial system arises, in which banks provide liquidity transformation, are active in secondary financial markets and are the only player in primary markets, while households only participate in secondary financial markets. Secondly, we analyze the effect a run on a single bank has on the entire financial system. Interestingly, we can show that a bank run on a single bank causes contagion via the financial market neither in market-oriented nor in extremely bank-dominated financial systems. But in only moderately bank-dominated (or hybrid) financial systems fire sales of long-term financial claims by a distressed bank cause a sudden drop in asset prices that precipitates other banks into crisis.
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Open source projects produce goods or standards that do not allow for the appropriation of private returns by those who contribute to their production. In this paper we analyze why programmers will nevertheless invest their time and effort to code open source software. We argue that the particular way in which open source projects are managed and especially how contributions are attributed to individual agents, allows the best programmers to create a signal that more mediocre programmers cannot achieve. Through setting themselves apart they can turn this signal into monetary rewards that correspond to their superior capabilities. With this incentive they will forgo the immediate rewards they could earn in software companies producing proprietary software by restricting the access to the source code of their product. Whenever institutional arrangements are in place that enable the acquisition of such a signal and the subsequent substitution into monetary rewards, the contribution to open source projects and the resulting public good is a feasible outcome that can be explained by standard economic theory.
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Under a new Basel capital accord, bank regulators might use quantitative measures when evaluating the eligibility of internal credit rating systems for the internal ratings based approach. Based on data from Deutsche Bundesbank and using a simulation approach, we find that it is possible to identify strongly inferior rating systems out-of time based on statistics that measure either the quality of ranking borrowers from good to bad, or the quality of individual default probability forecasts. Banks do not significantly improve system quality if they use credit scores instead of ratings, or logistic regression default probability estimates instead of historical data. Banks that are not able to discriminate between high- and low-risk borrowers increase their average capital requirements due to the concavity of the capital requirements function.
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This paper is a draft for the chapter German banks and banking structure of the forthcoming book The German financial system . As such, the paper starts out with a description of past and present structural features of the German banking industry. Given the presented empirical evidence it then argues that great care has to be taken when generalising structural trends from one financial system to another. Whilst conventio nal commercial banking is clearly in decline in the US, it is far from clear whether the dominance of banks in the German financial system has been significantly eroded over the last decades. We interpret the immense stability in intermediation ratios and financing patterns of firms between 1970 and 2000 as strong evidence for our view that the way in which and the extent to which German banks fulfil the central functions for the financial system are still consistent with the overall logic of the German financial system. In spite of the current dire business environment for financial intermediaries we do not expect the German financial system and its banking industry as an integral part of this system to converge to the institutional arrangements typical for a market-oriented financial system. This Version: March 25, 2003
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Asset-backed securitisation (ABS) is an asset funding technique that involves the issuance of structured claims on the cash flow performance of a designated pool of underlying receivables. Efficient risk management and asset allocation in this growing segment of fixed income markets requires both investors and issuers to thoroughly understand the longitudinal properties of spread prices. We present a multi-factor GARCH process in order to model the heteroskedasticity of secondary market spreads for valuation and forecasting purposes. In particular, accounting for the variance of errors is instrumental in deriving more accurate estimators of time-varying forecast confidence intervals. On the basis of CDO, MBS and Pfandbrief transactions as the most important asset classes of off-balance sheet and on-balance sheet securitisation in Europe we find that expected spread changes for these asset classes tends to be level stationary with model estimates indicating asymmetric mean reversion. Furthermore, spread volatility (conditional variance) is found to follow an asymmetric stochastic process contingent on the value of past residuals. This ABS spread behaviour implies negative investor sentiment during cyclical downturns, which is likely to escape stationary approximation the longer this market situation lasts.