risk in which all banks choose inefficiently high leverage to fund correlated assets and market discipline is compromised … failure, and be available to shareholders only contingent on good performance. -- Market discipline ; asset substitution … ; systemic risk ; bailout ; forbearance ; moral hazard ; capital requirements …

regular core capital requirement that helps deter excessive risk-taking incentives. The second tier, a novel aspect of our … framework, is a special capital account that limits risk taking but preserves creditors' monitoring incentives. -- capital … requirements ; leverage ; systemic risk …

turn, banks hoard liquidity and decrease term lending as their rollover risk increases over the term of the loan. High …, inter-bank markets can completely freeze. -- inter-bank lending ; financial crisis ; precautionary demand ; rollover risk …

We address the paradox that financial innovations aimed at risk-sharing appear to have made the world riskier … liquid assets. When risk-sharing is primitive, agents selfhedge and hold more liquid assets; this buffers aggregate risks …, resulting in few correlated failures compared to when there is greater risk sharing. We apply this insight to build a model of a …

shortfalls are measured relative to risk-weighted assets, the ranking of financial institutions is very different from the V …-Lab stress test, whereas when measured relative to total assets, the results are quite similar. We show that the risk measures … used in risk-weighted assets are cross-sectionally uncorrelated with market measures of risk as they do not account for the …

against the benefit of equity in attenuating risk-shifting. However, faced with socially-costly correlated bank failures …, regulators bail out creditors. Anticipation of this generates multiple equilibria, including one with systemic risk in which …

against the benefit of equity in attenuating risk-shifting. However, faced with socially-costly correlated bank failures …, regulators bail out creditors. Anticipation of this generates multiple equilibria, including one with systemic risk in which …

turn, banks hoard liquidity and decrease term lending as their rollover risk increases over the term of the loan. High …

-seeking behavior by firms. Firms with high liquidity risk are likely to use cash rather than credit lines for liquidity management … because the cost of monitored liquidity insurance increases with liquidity risk. We exploit a quasi-experiment around the … downgrade of General Motors (GM) and Ford in 2005 and find that firms that experienced an exogenous increase in liquidity risk …

-seeking behavior by firms. Firms with high liquidity risk are likely to use cash rather than credit lines for liquidity management … because the cost of monitored liquidity insurance increases with liquidity risk. We exploit a quasi-experiment around the … downgrade of General Motors (GM) and Ford in 2005 and find that firms that experienced an exogenous increase in liquidity risk …