the insurance sector. The downside risk of insurers is explicitly modelled by common and idiosyncratic risk factors. Since … reinsurance is important for the capacity of insurers, we measure risk dependence among European insurers and reinsurers. The … results point to a relatively low insurance sector wide risk. Dependence among insurers is higher than among reinsurers. …

We propose to pool alternative systemic risk rankings for financial institutions using the method of principal … components. The resulting overall ranking is less affected by estimation uncertainty and model risk. We apply our methodology to … disentangle the common signal and the idiosyncratic components from a selection of key systemic risk rankings that are recently …

rationale behind the bans was that "bear raids", driven by short-sellers, would increase the individual and systemic risk of … financial institutions, especially for institutions with high leverage. This study uses Extreme Value Theory to estimate the … specifically target institutions with lower capital levels. Furthermore, institutions' risk-levels and changes in short …

Building on a model of the interaction of risk-averse frms that compete in forward and spot markets, we develop an … empirical strategy to test whether oligopolistic frms use forward contracts for strategic motives, for risk-hedging, or for both …. An increase in the number of players weakens the incentives to sell forward for risk-hedging reasons.However, if …