In the presence of macroeconomic shocks severe enough to threaten the liquidity or solvency of the banking system, the …

allocations and discuss implications for credit risk modeling. …

frequency trading, can induce demand for liquidity to be upward sloping and strategic complementarities in traders' liquidity … consumption decisions: traders demand more liquidity when the market becomes less liquid, which in turn makes the market more … illiquid, fostering the initial demand hike. This can generate market instability, where an initial dearth of liquidity …

ante risk assessment and derive risk premia for every balance sheet item where liabilities are differentiated according to … priority rights. We find that risk premia reflect both idiosyncratic risk and risk of contagion (network risk). Moreover, we … show that network risk magnifies the gap between the risk premia of equity and debt. We also perform comparative statics …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … regulators in risky countries have an incentive to allow their banks to hold home risky bonds and risk defaults, while regulators … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …

From 1963 through 2015, idiosyncratic risk (IR) is high when market risk (MR) is high. We show that the positive … relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market …-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the strength of the relation, it is strong for the most liquid stocks. The relation …

A large literature suggests that the expected equity risk premium is countercyclical. Using a variety of different … measures for this risk premium, we document that it also exhibits growth asymmetry, i.e. the risk premium rises sharply in … which agents cannot perfectly observe the state of current productivity, can generate the observed asymmetry in the risk …