Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/211880 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Finland Discussion Papers No. 2/2001
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper discusses some potential implications - both intended and unintended - of The New Basel Accord, which is to be finalized by the end of 2001.Our focus is on the reforms of the rules for determining minimum capital requirements for credit risk.The discussion is divided into effects at the level of an individual bank, effects on the structure of the financial markets, and macroeconomic implications.We present a survey of potential effects rather than a profound analysis of any of them.Therefore conclusions are inevitably preliminary, and in many cases they are likely to be controversial.Although the new capital accord as a whole is a major improvement on many properties of the current framework, our aim is to find potential problems that might need to be considered in the implementation and application of the new rules.Overall, the new accord will be largely an experiment, of which many of the consequences remain to be seen.
Subjects: 
The New Basel Accord
capital adequacy requirements
credit crisk
banking stability
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ISBN: 
951-686-704-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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