which financial markets were trying to allocate risk between heterogeneous agents when productive investment opportunities … are scarce. We begin by showing how heterogeneity in terms of risk tolerance can cause financial markets to propagate …

expected exchange rate depreciations (appreciations) for high (low) interest rate currencies, suggesting that disaster risk is … priced in currency markets. To study the price of disaster risk, we propose a simple structural model that includes both … Gaussian and disaster risk and can be estimated even in samples that do not contain disasters. Estimating the model over the …

the guarantee-extending parties to "walk away". I derive the optimal risk management rule in such a framework and show … that it allows high volatility choices, while net worth is high. However, risk limits tighten abruptly when the firm's net … risk management rules, and can account for phenomena such as "flight to quality" …

monetary policy. The theory unifies an endogenous supply of illiquid local loans and risk-sharing among subsidiaries of bank …

We propose several econometric measures of systemic risk to capture the interconnectedness among the monthly returns of … find that all four sectors have become highly interrelated over the past decade, increasing the level of systemic risk in … of market dislocation, and systemic risk arises from a complex and dynamic network of relationships among hedge funds …

We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for sixty countries based on fiscal space (debt/tax; deficits/tax) and other … and economically important determinants of market-based sovereign risk. Although the explanatory power of fiscal space … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …

Can increased uncertainty about the future cause a contraction in output and its components? An identified uncertainty …-equilibrium models with flexible prices cannot reproduce this comovement. However, uncertainty shocks can easily generate comovement with … countercyclical markups through sticky prices. Monetary policy plays a key role in offsetting the negative impact of uncertainty …

Here, I present and discuss a "10-by-10-by-10" network-based approach to monitoring systemic financial risk. Under this … of cash flow, allowing regulators to assess risk magnitudes in terms of stresses to both economic values and also …