between integration and synchronization depends on the type of shocks hitting the world economy, and that shocks to global …

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 …

idiosyncratic entrepreneurial risk-- a risk that introduces, not only a precautionary motive for saving, but also a wedge between …

superior. The intuition is simple: if underlying technologies are not convex, then risk-sharing can lower expected utility. The … simplistic models arguing for financial integration typically employed in economics assume convexity; but the world is rife with … likelihood of a bankruptcy cascade, "contagion," and systemic risk …

the U.S. would experience a sudden stop of capital flows, which would unavoidably drag the world economy into a deep … instead that the root imbalance was of a different kind: The entire world had an insatiable demand for safe debt instruments … of exposing the economy to a systemic panic. This structural problem can be alleviated if governments around the world …

Developments in the financial sector have led to an expansion in its ability to spread risks. The increase in the risk … bearing capacity of economies, as well as in actual risk taking, has led to a range of financial transactions that hitherto … were not possible, and has created much greater access to finance for firms and households. On net, this has made the world …

This paper considers the meaning of domestic and international systemic risk. It examines scenarios that have been … adduced as creating systemic risk both within countries and among them. It distinguishes between the concepts of real and … pseudo-systemic risk. We examine the history of episodes commonly viewed either as financial crises or as evidencing systemic …

uncertainty is time-varying, and (2) countries have heterogeneous exposures to a world aggregate shock. We embed these features in …

We propose several econometric measures of systemic risk to capture the interconnectedness among the monthly returns of … find that all four sectors have become highly interrelated over the past decade, increasing the level of systemic risk in … of market dislocation, and systemic risk arises from a complex and dynamic network of relationships among hedge funds …