• Bankenes tilpasning til reguleringer : en modellbasert analyse 

      Nordal, Kjell Bjørn; Aronsen, Per Atle; Turtveit, Lars-Tore (Staff Memo;11/2016, Working paper, 2016)
      I denne artikkelen benytter vi en modell for å belyse insentivene banker har til å velge nivåene på kapitaldekning og utlånsvekst når de står overfor et regulatorisk kapitalkrav og regler om tvungen konvertering av gjeld ...
    • Bankenes utlån til næringseiendom – en kilde til systemrisiko? 

      Hagen, Marius; Hjelseth, Ida Nervik; Solheim, Haakon; Vatne, Bjørn Helge (Staff Memo;11/2018, Working paper, 2018)
      Utlån til næringseiendom utgjør nesten halvparten av bankenes utlån til ikke- finansielle foretak. Disse lånene har normalt lave tap i gode tider, men har vist seg som en av de største kildene til tap i bankene under ...
    • Bankers likviditet og finansiering 

      Hoff, Erna (Journal article, 2012)
      Bankene finansierer utlån med innskudd fra kunder og ved markedsfinansiering, det vil si innlån fra penge- og kapitalmarkedene. En viktig oppgave for banker er å omdanne kortsiktig sparing fra publikum til langsiktige ...
    • Banking Competition, Monitoring Incentives and Financial Stability 

      Vo, Thi Quynh Anh (Working Papers;16/2010, Working paper, 2010)
      This paper addresses the desirability of competition in banking industry. In a model where banks compete on both deposit and loan markets and where banks can use monitoring technology to control entrepreneurs' behavior, ...
    • Banking Crisis Resolution Policy - Different Country Experiences 

      Mayes, David G. (Staff Memo;10/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      The current financial crisis has sparked an intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international efforts to coordinate and converge on such policies, national policy advice and resolution practices ...
    • Bankmodellen og stresstesten i rapport om Finansiell stabilitet 2015 

      Syversten, Bjørne Dyre H.; Johansen, Rønnaug Melle; Lind, Øyvind Andreas; Solheim, Haakon; Stefano, Nicolas (Staff Memo;5/2015, Working paper, 2015)
      Norges Bank bruker stresstester til å undersøke mulige konsekvenser for bankene av alvorlige økonomiske forstyrrelser. Fra og med rapport om Finansiell stabilitet 2013 har stresstestene vært basert på et nytt modellapparat. ...
    • A bankruptcy probability model for assessing credit risk on corporate loans with automated variable selection 

      Hjelseth, Ida Nervik; Raknerud, Arvid; Vatne, Bjørn H. (Working paper;7/2022, Working paper, 2022)
      We propose an econometric model for predicting the share of bank debt held by bankrupt firms by combining a novel set of firm-level financial variables and macroeconomic indicators. Our firm-level data include payment ...
    • Banks as Multioutput Oligopolies: An Empirical Evaluation of the Retail and Corporate Banking Markets 

      Berg, Sigbjørn Atle; Kim, Moshe (Working Papers;10/1994, Working paper, 1994)
      The distinction between retail and corporate banking markets is of much importance in real life banking organizations. The two markets differ with respect to concentration, the importance of informational asymmetries, and ...
    • Banks’ Buffer Capital: How Important Is Risk? 

      Lindquist, Kjersti-Gro (Working Papers;11/2003, Working paper, 2003)
      Most banks hold a capital to asset ratio well above the required minimum defined by the present capital adequacy regulation (Basel I). Using bank-level panel data from Norway, important hypotheses concerning the determination ...
    • Banks’ Costs and Income in the Payment System in 2001 

      Gresvik, Olaf; Øwre, Grete (Journal article, 2002)
      According to national accounts data, the financial sector showed a strong increase in productivity in the 1990s. This article explains that this was largely due to changes in the payment system. A larger number of payment ...
    • Banks’ Counterparty Risk – Results of a Survey Conducted by Norges Bank and the Banking Insurance and Securities Commission 

      Gerdrup, Karsten R.; Bakke, Bjørn (Journal article, 2003)
      Norges Bank has overall responsibility for promoting financial stability and works systematically to identify conditions that could trigger a systemic crisis. As part of this work, Norges Bank, in collaboration with the ...
    • Banks’ Credit Risk Associated with the Oil Service Industry 

      Hjelseth, Ida Nervik; Turtveit, Lars-Tore; Winje, Hanna (Economic Commentaries;5/2016, Others, 2016)
      Norwegian banks’ direct credit exposures to the oil service industry are low overall. Despite a substantial fall in oil prices and oil investment, banks’ losses on loans have remained low. The debt-servicing capacity of a ...
    • Banks’ Liquidity Situation During the Financial Turmoil in Autumn 2008 

      Berg, Sigbjørn Atle; Lund, Arild J.; Paulsen, Kenneth Sæterhagen; Sundvall, Nora (Journal article, 2012)
      In autumn 2008, many banks encountered considerable difficulties with portfolio funding. This article describes the impact on Norwegian banks. The authors also look at the characteristic features of the banks that faced ...
    • Banks’ Margins 

      Erard, Monique E. Erlandsen (Economic Commentaries;4/2014, Others, 2014)
      The issue of the pricing of bank loans has recently been in focus. There are varying views on whether banks’ margins are high and their development over time. This article seeks to clarify different margin concepts and ...
    • Banks’ Optimal Implementation Strategies for a Risk Sensitive Regulatory Capital Rule: A Real Options and Signalling Approach 

      Nordal, Kjell Bjørn (Working Papers;12/2006, Working paper, 2006)
      I evaluate a bank's incentives to implement a risk sensitive regulatory capital rule and to invest in improved risk measurement. The decision making is analyzed within a real options framework where optimal policies are ...
    • Banks’ Pricing of Risk Associated with Corporate Lending 

      Bernhardsen, Eivind; Larsen, Kai (Journal article, 2003)
      If a bank on average prices its loans too low in relation to the risk associated with the loans, the bank’s financial strength will deteriorate over time. Banks’ pricing of risk is therefore important to the stability of ...
    • Banks’ wholesale funding share as an indicator of financial vulnerability 

      Alstadheim, Ragna (Staff Memo;7/2020, Working paper, 2020)
      A review of theoretical links between the wholesale (or market) funding share of banks (WFS) and financial vulnerability is provided. The vulnerability may both be within the financial system, and in the non-financial ...
    • Banktestamenter – krav om avviklingsplaner for banker 

      Søvik, Ylva (Journal article, 2011)
      Finanskrisen viste at man trenger bedre systemer for å håndtere banker i krise, slik at man unngår at skattebetalerne må finansiere videre drift for å sikre finansiell stabilitet. Det er foreslått at bankene må utarbeide ...
    • Basel I-gulvet – overgangsregel og sikkerhetsmekanisme i kapitaldekningsregelverket 

      Borchgrevink, Henrik (Aktuell Kommentar;8/2012, Others, 2012)
      Kapitalkravene skal sørge for at banker har en viss mengde kapital til å møte uventede tap. Kravene tar hensyn til hvor risikable bankenes ulike utlån er. Denne risikovektingen innebærer at det kreves mer kapital for mer ...
    • Bayesian Analysis of Boundary and Near-Boundary Evidence in Econometric Models with Reduced Rank 

      Basturk, Nalan; Hoogerheide, Lennart; van Dijk, Herman K. (Working Papers;11/2017, Working paper, 2017)
      Weak empirical evidence near and at the boundary of the parameter region is a predominant feature in econometric models. Examples are macroeconometric models with weak information on the number of stable relations, ...