This paper addresses the impact of developments in the credit risk transfer market on the viability of a group of … systemically important financial institutions. We propose a bank default risk model, in the vein of the classic Merton-type, which … utilizes a multi-equation framework to model forward-looking measures of market and credit risk using the credit default swap …

-probability extreme events on environmental policy in a continuous-time real options model with “tail risk”. In a nutshell, our results … indicate the importance of tail risk and call for foresighted pre-emptive climate policies …

ex ante identical households and the no-risk case with heterogeneous abilities come out as special cases …

This paper explores the introduction of collective risk-sharing elements in defined contribution pension contracts. We … consider status-contingent, age-contingent and asset contingent risk-sharing arrangements. All arrangements raise aggregate …

with the Arrow/Romer approach to endogenous growth to analyze the interaction of risk, growth, and inequality, the latter …. Major results include that growth, inequality, and risk are positively related in our model, but we also identify a hump …–shaped relationship between welfare and risk, indicating a tradeoff relationship between risk–pooling and growth in the determination of …