We examine the distribution (across institutions and intertemporally) in charge-off and delinquency rates for six categories of loans held by U.S. banks and thrifts. The sample uses regulatory reporting data for roughly 230,000 institution-years from 1984 to 1999 (comprising over 2 million data...

We examine the effects of price disclosure on market performance in a continuous experimental multiple-dealer market in which seven professional market-makers trade a single security. The dealers trade with one another and with computerized informed and liquidity traders. Our key comparison is...

We examine the consequences of transparency in an experimental multiple-dealer market with asymmetrically informed dealers. Five professional securities traders make a market for a single security. In each trading round, one of the dealers (the quot;insiderquot;) is told the security's true...

We present an enterprise design pattern for managing metadata in support of financial analytics packages. The complexity of financial modeling typically requires deployment of multiple financial analytics packages, drawing data from multiple source systems. Business domain experts are typically...

We present a technique for selecting multidimensional shock scenarios for use in financial stress testing. The methodology systematically enforces internal consistency among the shock dimensions by sampling points of arbitrary severity from a plausible joint probability distribution. The...

We examine the extent to which the consequences of insider trading for a financial market depend on the trading mechanism in an experimental multiple dealer asset market. In this market, five professional securities traders make a market in a single asset. In each trading round, one of the...

This paper examines trading costs in markets where dealers search for price quotes (such as multiple-dealer equity markets and foreign exchange). Using an experimental market, we compare four popular models for estimating effective spreads. The theoretical implications of 'bid-ask bounce' are...

In this paper we examine the effects of the amount of trade disclosure in an experimental financial market, in which nine professional traders set quotes and trade continuously. In addition to these market makers, two computerized external customers interact, representing both informed and...