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Risk diversification is the basis of insurance and investment. It is thus crucial to study the effects that could limit … it. One of them is the existence of systemic risk that affects all the policies at the same time. We introduce here a … probabilistic approach to examine the consequences of its presence on the risk loading of the premium of a portfolio of insurance …
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efficient in responding to the liquidity crisis subject to large banks that contributed the most to systemic risk. However …
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We propose a tractable framework for quantifying the impact of fire sales on the volatility and correlations of asset returns in a multi-asset setting. Our results enable to quantify the impact of fire sales on the covariance structure of asset returns and provide a quantitative explanation for...
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The spectacular failure of the 150-year old investment bank Lehman Brothers on September 15th, 2008 was a major turning point in the global financial crisis that broke out in the summer 2007. Through the use of stock market data and Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads, this paper examines the...
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international minimum standards in order to mimimise systemic risk. Indeed, Basel agreement is designed to guide a judgement about … alternative model to Basel framework is derived where systemic risk is taken into account in each bank's dynamic. This might be a … new departure for prudential policy. It allows for the regulator to compute capital and risk requirements for controlling …
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of the five categories of risk importance (size, cross-jurisdictional activity, interconnectedness, substitutability …/financial institution infrastructure, and complexity) may not be equal and the resulting systemic risk scores are mechanically dominated by … systemic risk scores. …
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investors to counterparty risk. To mitigate the funds' exposure, their counterparties must pledge collateral. In this paper, we … present a framework to study collateral risk and provide empirical estimates for the $40.9 billion collateral portfolios of … about the high collateral risk of ETFs. Finally, we theoretically show how to construct an optimal collateral portfolio for …
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We analyse the risk-taking behaviour of heterogenous intermediaries that are protected by limited liability and choose … both their amount of leverage and the risk exposure of their portfolio. Due the opacity of the financial sector, outside … providers of funds cannot distinguishing "prudent" intermediaries from those "imprudent" ones that voluntarily hold high-risk …
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This article uses graph theory to provide novel evidence regarding market integration, a favorable condition for … systemic risk to appear in. Relying on daily futures returns covering a 12-year period, we examine cross- and inter … analysis, graph theory enables us to understand the dynamic behavior of our price system. We show that energy markets - as a …
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individual institutions to the risk in the system. Although the threat index and the default level of a bank both reflect some …
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