Internal capital market studies in empirical banking: Biases due to usage of assets instead of risk capital?

Markus Glaser and Jan Riepe

Finance Research Letters, 2014, vol. 11, issue 1, 47-53

Abstract: Unlike industrial companies, banks allocate “risk-taking potential” across subunits, instead of investment budgets or assets. Researchers typically do not have access to this data on risk-bearing capacity across subunits and use (changes in) assets or loans instead. Based on unique data from Germany, where banks disclose both assets and corresponding risk capital, we analyze whether the approximation potentially introduces an econometric bias in empirical banking studies on internal capital markets. We provide empirical evidence that the quality of the approximation is correlated with variables capturing the risk and business models of segments.

Keywords: Internal capital allocation; Banks; Segmental reporting; Risk weighted assets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G20 G21 G31 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2013.12.001

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