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Sustainable profitability in volatile cyclical markets

Sarraf, Hanna - In: Journal of risk management in financial institutions 13 (2019/2020) 2, pp. 182-189

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Risk measures based on benchmark loss distributions

Bignozzi, Valeria; Burzoni, Matteo; Munari, Cosimo-Andrea - 2018

We introduce a class of quantile-based risk measures that generalize Value at Risk (VaR) and, likewise Expected Shortfall (ES), take into account both the frequency and the severity of losses. Under VaR a single confidence level is assigned regardless of the size of potential losses. We allow...

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Bank capital, liquid reserves, and insolvency risk

Hugonnier, Julien; Morellec, Erwan - 2015

regulatory requirements. Our analytic characterization of the bank policy choices shows that imposing solely liquidity … requirements leads to lower bank losses in default at the cost of an increased likelihood of default. Combining liquidity … requirements with leverage requirements reduces drastically both the likelihood of default and the magnitude of bank losses in …

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Climate change risk : the next frontier in banking risk management

Sarraf, Hanna - In: Journal of risk management in financial institutions 15 (2021/2022) 1, pp. 85-92

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Risk spillovers and interconnectedness between systemically important institutions

Andrieş, Alin Marius; Ongena, Steven; Sprincean, Nicu; … - 2020 - This version: May 9, 2020

In this paper we gauge the degree of interconnectedness and quantify the linkages between global and other systemically important institutions, and the global financial system. We document that the two groups and the financial system become more interconnected during the global financial crisis...

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Bank bonus pay as a risk sharing contract

Efing, Matthias; Hau, Harald; Kampkötter, Patrick; … - 2018

We argue that risk sharing motivates the bank-wide structure of bonus pay. In the presence of financial frictions that …

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The price of protection : derivatives, default risk, and margining

Gibson, Rajna; Murawski, Carsten - 2008

We investigate the effects of margining, a widely-used mechanism to attach collateral to derivatives contracts, on derivatives' trading volume, default risk, and on the welfare in the banking sector. First, we develop a stylized banking sector equilibrium model to derive a set of testable...

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Market risk calculation for private equity fund-of-funds

Henzler, Jörg; George, Constantine - In: Journal of risk management in financial institutions 11 (2017/2018) 4, pp. 328-360

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Intra-horizon expected shortfall and risk structure in models with jumps

Farkas, Walter; Mathys, Ludovic; Vasiljević, Nikola - 2019

The present article deals with intra-horizon risk in models with jumps. Our general understanding of intra-horizon risk is along the lines of the approach taken in [BRSW04], [Ro08], [BMK09], [BP10], and [LV19]. In particular, we believe that quantifying market risk by strictly relying on...

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Intrinsic risk measures

Farkas, Walter; Smirnow, Alexander - 2016 - First version: October 26, 2016

Monetary risk measures classify a financial position by the minimal amount of external capital that must be added to the position to make it acceptable.We propose a new concept: intrinsic risk measures. The definition via external capital is avoided and only internal resources appear. An...

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