We address the paradox that financial innovations aimed at risk-sharing appear to have made the world riskier. Financial innovations facilitate hedging idiosyncratic risks among agents; however, aggregate risks can be hedged only with liquid assets. When risk-sharing is primitive, agents...

[...]This paper aims to fill that gap by providing a simpleframework for analyzing the interactions between the threepillars of Basel II. We start by offering a critical assessment ofthe academic literature on the three pillars,5 and argue thatnone of the existing models allows for a...