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The role of banking portfolios in the transmission from currency crises to banking crises - potential effects of Basel II / Tobias Knedlik ; Johannes Ströbel
VerfasserKnedlik, Tobias ; Stroebel, Johannes
ErschienenHalle : Inst. für Wirtschaftsforschung, 2006 ; Halle, Saale : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2006
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SpracheEnglisch
SerieIWH-Diskussionspapiere ; 2006,21
URNurn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-735 
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This paper evaluates the potential effects of the Basel II accord on preventing the transmission from currency crises to financial crises. By analyzing the case study of South Korea it shows how mismatches on banks' balance sheets were the primary cause for such a transmission and models how Basel II would have affected those balance sheets. The paper shows that due to South Korea's positive credit rating in the months leading up to the crisis the regulatory capital reserves under Basel II would have been even lower than those under Basel I and that therefore Basel II would have had adverse effects on the development of the crisis. In the second part the article analyses whether the behavior of rating agencies has changed since their failure to predict the Asian crisis. The paper finds no robust econometric evidence that rating agencies have started to take micromismatches into account when assigning sovereign ratings. Thus given the current approach of credit rating agencies we have reservations concerning the effectiveness of Basel II to prevent the transmission from currency crises to banking crises both for the case of South Korea and for potential future crises.