How does asset encumbrance affect the fragility of intermediaries subject to rollover risk? We offer a model in which a …. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt and expand profitable investment, but it also concentrates risk on … guarantees induce excessive encumbrance and fragility. To mitigate such risk shifting, we study prudential regulatory tools …

portfolio, one for market risk and one for credit risk. Similar approaches are common in banks’ internal models for economic … capital. Although it is known that joint market and credit risk of certain investments can be larger than the sum of risks … holdings or CDS portfolios – are also affected. There are realistic conditions under which credit risk (represented by ratings …

According to current regulation, European banks can apply zero risk weights to sovereign exposures in their balance … sheet, irrespective of the assigned rating. We show that a zero risk weighting of sovereign bonds has implications by … introduced via a penalty function that punishes banks if they deviate from the target capital ratio. We study the zero risk …

whether they took on unwarranted credit risk by providing other than ultra-short liquidity. I propose a model in which …

Correlated defaults and systemic risk are clearly priced in credit portfolio securities such as CDOs or index CDSs. In … correlated defaults primarily impact the CDS prices of firms with an overall low CDS level. (III) Idiosyncratic risk factors for …

their collateral supply is determined by their ex ante securities holdings and repo rates. Second, it makes use of the …

their demand for collateral assets, and the short-term scarcity of collateral securities leads to higher prices, the Fire … Buy premium. To avoid collateral scarcity, central banks increase the set of eligible collateral assets. However, if the … risk-shifting channel is open for these newly eligible securities, banks prefer to pledge them and pay another premium, the …

We utilize the Eurosystem securities lending facilities as a laboratory to investigate the impact of collateral … overall activity in the repo market expands through the collateral multiplier. The improved pricing conditions alleviate … collateral scarcity and enhance market quality in both the repo and cash markets. …

Mutual fund risk-taking via active portfolio rebalancing varies both in the cross-section and over time. In this paper …, I show that the same is true for funds' off- balance sheet risk-taking, even after controlling for on-balance sheet … information. In the empirical application, I show that German equity funds have increased their risk-taking via synthetic leverage …