accounting, improve price and volatility discovery, and expand international risk intermediation activities …, analyze, and manage macroeconomic risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). We … illustrate how to use the CCA approach to model and measure sectoral and national risk exposures, and analyze policies to offset …

increase in total volatility led to a significant increase in market risk (beta) for the multinational firms relative to the … the relation between exchange rate variability and stock return volatility and by decomposing this relation into … components of systematic and diversifiable risk. Focusing on two periods around the 1973 switch from fixed to floating exchange …

that it allows high volatility choices, while net worth is high. However, risk limits tighten abruptly when the firm's net … increase volatility in order to exploit the implicit protection. However, if they increase volatility too much they may induce … the guarantee-extending parties to "walk away". I derive the optimal risk management rule in such a framework and show …

Liquidity risk in banking has been attributed to transactions deposits and their potential to spark runs or panics. We … show instead that transactions deposits help banks hedge liquidity risk from unused loan commitments. Bank stock …-return volatility increases with unused commitments, but the increase is smaller for banks with high levels of transactions deposits …

What do academics have to offer market risk management practitioners in financial institutions? Current industry … assessments of market risk. Clearly, the demands of real-world risk management in financial institutions -- in particular, real …-time risk tracking in very high-dimensional situations -- impose strict limits on model complexity. Hence we stress parsimonious …

Typical value-at-risk (VAR) calculations involve the probabilities of extreme dollar losses, based on the statistical … VAR values that are adjusted for risk aversion, time preferences, and other variations in economic valuation. In the … context of a representative agent equilibrium model, we construct an estimator of the risk-aversion coefficient that is …

bonds, greater risk-bearing capacity in the U.S. than the rest of the world, and nominal rigidities. A flight to safety … generates a dollar appreciation and decline in global output. Dollar bonds thus command a negative risk premium and the U ….S. holds a levered portfolio of capital financed in dollars. We quantify the effects of safety shocks and heterogeneity in risk …

these rejections are in part a consequence of the presence of omitted risk factors which are associated with nonzero risk … model should partially reflect exposure to these omitted sources of systematic risk and,hence, should help explain expected … residual risk effect in the previous literature:(1) nonlinearity of the residual risk effect and (2) the inadequacy of the …

the seriousness of this type of risk in the current United States situation are presented. Sufficient conditions on the … structure of the economy for such intergenerational risk pooling to be mutually beneficial to all members of society are derived …

banks to pursue safer investments in low-risk government securities …