A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price … stochastic optimal control (SOC)/dynamic risk management is a much more effective approach to determine the optimal degree of … leverage, the optimum and excessive risk and the probability of a debt crisis. The theoretically founded early warning signals …

In a standard financial market model with asymmetric information with a finite number N of risk-averse informed traders … particularly good when the informationally adjusted risk bearing capacity of traders is not very large. This is not the case if … informed traders are close to risk neutral. Both equilibria converge to the competitive equilibrium of an idealized limit …

We consider a two-period market with persistent liquidity trading and risk averse privately informed investors who have … equilibria which can be ranked in terms of liquidity, volatility, and informational efficiency. We establish the limits of the …

during the period of the financial crisis. In a Value-at-Risk (VaR) analysis, finally, we further illustrate the advantages … confidence levels while other models fail to specify the risk correctly. This analysis shows that ignoring the actual nature of … dependence might lead to an underestimation of the risk for portfolios combining EUAs with commodities or equity investments. …

Building on a model of the interaction of risk-averse firms that compete in forward and spot markets, we develop an … empirical strategy to test whether oligopolistic firms use forward contracts for strategic motives, for risk-hedging, or for … both. An increase in the number of players weakens the incentives to sell forward for risk-hedging reasons. However, if …

allocations and discuss implications for credit risk modeling. …