rationale behind the bans was that "bear raids", driven by short-sellers, would increase the individual and systemic risk of … specifically target institutions with lower capital levels. Furthermore, institutions' risk-levels and changes in short …

conversion on the risk-taking behaviour of the issuing bank. We also test for regulatory arbitrage: do banks try to maintain risk … sample selection bias, we show that CoCo bonds issuance has a strong positive e↵ect on risk-taking behaviour, particularly … amplifies the impact of CoCo bonds on risk-taking. …

risk forecasts to the appropriate monetary authorities at the beginning of each trading day, using one or more risk models … to measure Value-at-Risk (VaR). The risk estimates of these models are used to determine capital requirements and … estimated VaR. In this paper we define risk management in terms of choosing sensibly from a variety of risk models, discuss the …

An intensive and still growing body of research focuses on estimating a portfolio’s Value-at-Risk.Depending on both the …

Economic problems such as large claims analysis in insurance and value-at-risk in finance, requireassessment of the …

find that risk-shifting interacts with regulatory arbitrage motives to explain how banks adjust their portfolios after … yielding but zero risk-weight sovereign bonds. The increase in banking system risk might therefore be even larger than the … decline in risk-weighted solvency ratios suggests. Distress in the banking system also feeds back onto bond prices. Bonds …

The paper studies risk mitigation associated with capital regulation, in a context when banks may choose tail risk … assets. We show that this undermines the traditional result that higher capital reduces excess risk-taking driven by limited … liability. When capital raising is costly, poorly capitalized banks may limit risk to avoid breaching the minimal capital ratio …