: undiversifiable interest rate risk and shocks to aggregate liquidity demand. Mutual funds are inefficient when the economy faces … undiversifiable interest rate risk. However, if only aggregate liquidity demand is stochastic, mutual funds can implement the social …I analyze welfare properties of mutual funds in the Diamond-Dybvig model with two sources of aggregate risk …

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 …

discipline by monitoring counterparty credit risk and theories highlighting that secured loans are less informational sensitive … provide more secured loans to replace unsecured lending, which is not consistent with speculative or precautionary liquidity …

I revisit the Diamond-Dybvig model of liquidity insurance in the presence of hidden trades. The key result is that in … this environment deposit-taking banks are not necessary for the efficient provision of liquidity. Mutual funds are … constrained efficient when supplemented with the same government liquidity regulation that is required to make a banking system …

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 …

We propose a credit portfolio approach for evaluating systemic risk and attributing it across institutions. We … between the institutions, overcoming a modeling weakness in earlier studies. A latent risk factor with heterogeneous exposures …

We propose a credit portfolio approach for evaluating systemic risk and attributing it across institutions. We … banks where we find discrepancies between the capital adequacy of the largest contributors to systemic risk relative to less …