• Kostnadseffektiviseringen til de norske bankene kan forklares med automatisering og digitalisering 

      Andersen, Henrik (Staff Memo;9/2020, Working paper, 2020)
      De norske bankene har redusert driftskostnadene betydelig de siste tiårene, både i forhold til inntektene og eiendelene. Det har gjort bankene mer robuste mot økte tap og redusert faren for kriser. I dette memoet analyserer ...
    • Norwegian Banks in a Recession: Procyclical Implications of Basel II 

      Andersen, Henrik (Working Papers;4/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      While the new capital adequacy framework, Basel II, aims to make the banks’ capital requirements more sensitive to the underlying risk of the assets, it may also introduce an additional source of procyclicality in the ...
    • Optimal capital adequacy ratio for Norwegian banks 

      Andersen, Henrik; Juelsrud, Ragnar Enger (Staff Memo;9/2021, Working paper, 2022)
      In this paper, we analyse the appropriate capital adequacy ratio for banks from a socio-economic perspective. More equity capital in banks can contribute to financial stability by reducing the risk of costly banking crises, ...
    • Optimal kapitaldekning for norske banker 

      Andersen, Henrik; Juelsrud, Ragnar Enger (Staff Memo;9/2022, Working paper, 2022)
      I dette memoet analyserer vi hvor høy kapitaldekning bankene bør ha i et samfunnsøkonomisk perspektiv. Mer egenkapital i bankene kan bidra til finansiell stabilitet ved å redusere risikoen for kostbare bankkriser, men utlån ...
    • Risk-based pricing in competitive lending markets 

      Müller, Carola; Juelsrud, Ragnar; Andersen, Henrik (Working paper;19/2021, Working paper, 2021)
      We use unique data on banks' private risk assessments of corporate borrowers to quantify how competition among banks affect the risk sensitivity of interest rates in the Norwegian credit market. We show that an increase ...
    • Sammenlikning av norske bankers kapitaldekning 

      Andersen, Henrik (Journal article, 2010)
      For å få et bedre grunnlag for å sammenlikne bankenes soliditet benytter jeg i denne artikkelen den samme metoden til å beregne kapitaldekningen i alle de norske bankene. Basel II gir bankene adgang til å velge mellom ulike ...
    • Stress Testing of Banks’ Profit and Capital Adequacy 

      Andersen, Henrik; Berge, Tor Oddvar (Journal article, 2008)
      A model system for stress testing financial stability is being developed at Norges Bank. In this article, we present two of the models in this system: a macroeconomic model and a bank model. The macro model simulates ...
    • Stresstesting av bankenes resultater og kapitaldekning 

      Andersen, Henrik; Berge, Tor Oddvar (Journal article, 2008)
      I Norges Bank utvikles det et modellsystem for stresstesting av finansiell stabilitet. I denne artikkelen presenterer vi to av modellene i dette systemet: en makroøkonomisk modell og en bankmodell for å analysere utviklingen ...
    • The Dynamics of Operating Income in the Norwegian Banking Sector 

      Andersen, Henrik; Berg, Sigbjørn Atle; Jansen, Eilev S. (Working Papers;13/2008, Working paper, 2008)
      The banking literature contains only a handful of studies of how bank revenues vary over the business cycle, and nearly all of these studies look exclusively on the net interest margin. The general conclusion has been that ...