Recent literature has proposed new methods for measuring the systemic risk of financial institutions based on observed … stock returns. In this paper we examine the reliability and robustness of such risk measures, focusing on CoVaR, marginal … expected shortfall, and option-based tail risk estimates. We show that CoVaR exhibits undesired characteristics in the way it …

We show that banks' risk exposure in one asset category affects how they report regulatory risk weights for another … asset category. Specifically, banks report lower credit risk weights for their loan portfolio when they face higher risk … constraints. Our results suggest the existence of incentive spillovers across different risk categories. We relate this behavior …

The subprime crisis revealed that the adoption of suitable systems for the management of credit risk is of utmost … assessing the capital adequacy. This paper investigates whether decisions on total risk-based capital ratios are channeled … thus advance regulation. -- Risk management ; regulation ; capital requirement ; credit portfolio model ; propensity score …

seeks to control the amount of tail risk that large banks take in their trading books. However, banks around the world … whether the Basel framework allows banks to take substantive tail risk in their trading books without a capital requirement … regarding the treatment of tail risk. -- Bank regulation ; bank stability ; Basel framework ; crisis ; tail risk …

securities with the highest yield and lowest collateral quality among ABS with the same regulatory risk weight. This ABS …

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 …

-down, stress-testing framework to quantify systemic risk. The key transmission mechanism is a two-way interaction between the …