This paper provides an empirical analysis of the risk of trading revenues of U.S. commercial banks. We collect … quarterly data on trading revenues, broken down by business line, as well as the Value at Risk-based market risk charge. The … across business lines. These low correlations do not corroborate systemic risk concerns. Neither is there evidence that the …

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 …

. Dynamically spread-weighting and risk-rebalancing positions improves performance. Equity, bond, FX, volatility, and downside …

options in defined contribution retirement plans. We document large differences in realized TDF returns and risk profiles … reflects optimal risk-taking by fund families with low market share, especially those entering the market after 2006. Using … plan-level data, we find little evidence that 401(k) plan sponsors match the risk profile of the TDFs in their plans to the …

national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used … today at the level of individual banks by managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk … to quantifying the effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets …

with endogenous solvency constraints. These solvency constraints are such as to prevent default at the cost of reduced risk … kernel, and compare it to the one for economies without participation constraints: interest rates are lower and risk premia …

This study is concerned with establishing the determinants of banks' exposure to risk and with predicting risk in … banking. Using the COMPUSTAT data base, prediction rules have been developed for two aspects of risk: systematic risk (risk … that is related to covariance with the market portfolio) and residual risk (the aggregate of specific risk and extra …

-contribution (DC) plans that typically contain a minimum benefit guarantee (DC-MB). Risk management techniques must be used to control … the Samp;P500. Calculations show that the true risk-adjusted value of unfunded guarantees in a realistic DC-MB plan equals … 'basis risk' if they chose a non-standard portfolio. However, for large conversions from DB to DC-MB plans, in which there is …

Assessing the importance of uninsurable wage risk for individual financial choices faces two challenges. First, the … identification of the marginal effect requires a measure of at least one component of risk that cannot be diversified or avoided …. Moreover, measures of uninsurable wage risk must vary over time to eliminate unobserved heterogeneity. Second, evaluating the …

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has phased in the Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) risk … beneficiary's health status. However, it is debatable whether the CMS-HCC model has led to strategic evolutions of risk selection …. We examine the competing claims and analyze the risk selection behavior of MA plans in response to the CMS-HCC model. We …