When risk premiums decrease as the bank's risk increases - A caveat on the use of subordinated bonds as an instrument of banking supervision

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 369-390

  Bigus, Jochen ^a   Prigge, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basel II banking regulation; Information function of market prices; Subordinated bonds

Indexed keywords

EID: 23944437638     PISSN: 10424431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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