reinsurance companies, financial markets have failed to displace reinsurance as the primary risk-sharing vehicle for natural … catastrophe risk. We show that this failure can be explained by differences in information gathering incentives between financial … markets and reinsurance companies. Using a simple model of an insurance company that seeks to transfer a fraction of its risk …

We examine the quantification of operational risk for banks. We adopt a financial-economics approach and interpret … operational risk management as a means of optimizing the profitability of an institution along its value chain. We start by defining … operational risk and then propose a framework to model risk mitigation through the bank’s value chain over time. Using analytical …

for corporate debt, credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations by decomposing the risk structure arisingfrom …

Economic cycles are the key credit portfolio risk driver and they are autocorrelated over time. We then show that it is … economically meaningful to define risk for credit portfolios in a multi period setup. Since one period expected shortfall fails to … measure risk adequately in a multi period context, we then extend the coherent expected shortfall to time-conditional expected …