ササキ コウジ   SASAKI Kouji
  佐々木 浩二
   所属   専修大学  経営学部
   専修大学大学院  経営学研究科
   職種   教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2007/07
形態種別 研究論文(学術雑誌)
標題 Proprietary Trading Losses in Banks: Do Banks Sufficiently Invest in Control?
執筆形態 共著
掲載誌名 Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Annals of Finance
巻・号・頁 3(3),pp.329-350
総ページ数 22
著者・共著者 Norvald Instefjord
概要 This paper analyzes management and control issues linked to the employment of traders who engage in proprietary trading activity for their employer (a bank). The bank can invest in control and monitoring of these traders, and the paper evaluates the profitability of such investments. We find that the investment in control is distorted due to interfering market microstructure effects. The bank is inclined to underinvest in control of its traders because traders who are not too closely monitored generate extra liquidity in the market. Bank supervision might be needed, therefore, to correct for such effects. We evaluate the effectiveness of the value-at-risk capital adequacy requirement proposed by the Bank for International Settlements, and find that this approach correctly targets the banks that are the most vulnerable, i.e. those that are the most at risk of underinvesting in its control and monitoring systems.
DOI 10.1007/s10436-006-0053-z