We analyze optimal hedging contracts and show that although hedging aims at sharing risk, it can lead to more risk …-taking. News implying that a hedge is likely to be loss-making undermines the risk-prevention incentives of the protection seller …. This incentive problem limits the capacity to share risks and generates endogenous counterparty risk. Optimal hedging can …

We study the optimal design of clearing systems. We analyze how counterparty risk should be allocated, whether traders … should be fully insured against that risk, and how moral hazard affects the optimal allocation of risk. The main advantage of … centralized clearing, as opposed to no or decentralized clearing, is the mutualization of risk. While mutualization fully insures …

increasing risk premia, and countercyclicality in response to rises in the risk-free rate. Using granular data on insurers …

increasing risk premia, and countercyclicality in response to rises in the risk-free rate. Using granular data on insurers …

The financial crisis has highlighted the need for models that can identify counter-party risk exposures and shock … extend this accounting-based network of interlinked exposures to risk-based balance sheets which are sensitive to changes in … constitute important channels through which local risk exposures and balance sheet dislocations can be transmitted, with the …

volatility risk, for dollar, euro and pound rates at a daily frequency, between October 1998 and August 2006. The measurement of … the volatility risk premium rests on a simple model according to which variance forecasts are generated under the … large - negative - compensation for volatility risk, a component which was smaller in absolute terms - but not relative to …