Current practice largely follows restrictive approaches to market risk measurement, such as historical simulation or … produce more accurate risk assessments, treating both portfolio-level and asset-level analysis. Asset-level analysis is … particularly challenging because the demands of real-world risk management in financial institutions - in particular, real …

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 …

, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in … perfect and efficient capital markets, reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but leaves the overall …-capitalized banks has lower systematic risk (beta) and lower idiosyncratic risk. However, over the last 40 years, lower risk banks have …

Bank risk-based capital (RBC) standards require banks to hold differing amounts of capital for different classes of … assets, based almost entirely on a credit risk criterion. The paper provides both a theoretical and empirical framework for … evaluating such standards. A model outlining a pricing methodology for loans subject to default risk is presented. The model …

government risk facing investors in medical innovation. This risk slows down medical innovation because investors must be …&D investors to better share the pipeline risk associated with FDA approval with broader capital markets. Using historical FDA … from offering them. Using various unique data sources, we find that FDA approval risk has a low correlation across drug …

Transaction costs in trading involve both risk and return. The return is associated with the cost of immediate … execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between … risk and return in optimal execution should reflect the same risk preferences as in ordinary investment. The paper develops …

probability distributions. This paper also explores the theoretical foundations of risk ranking, including proving a key …

its assets. This paper provides a normative analysis of minimizing such rollover risk, through the optimal dynamic choice …