Measuring off-Balance-Sheet Leverage [electronic resource]
- Author:
- Breuer, Peter
- Published:
- Washington : International Monetary Fund Dec. 2000
- Physical Description:
- 35 p.
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- Summary:
- Annotation The simultaneous unwinding of leveraged positions can trigger financial market turbulence. Although balance-sheet measures of leverage are available, it is useful to construct a measure of leverage that incorporates both on- and off-balance-sheet activities. This paper provides measures of leverage implicit in derivative contracts by decomposing the contracts into cash market equivalent components. a leverage ratio can then be calculated for this replicating portfolio, which consists of own funds (equity) and borrowed funds equivalents (debt). Methods for aggregating leverage by institution and by markets are presented. the interaction between leverage and risk is discussed, and a modified capital adequacy ratio is calculated, which captures off-balance-sheet exposure.
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- ISBN:
- 9781451918977
1451918976 (E-Book)
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