superior. The intuition is simple: if underlying technologies are not convex, then risk-sharing can lower expected utility. The … likelihood of a bankruptcy cascade, "contagion," and systemic risk"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

exposure to those counterparties. A possible conjecture in this context is that individual risk diversification across more … particular, the diversification of credit risk across many borrowers has ambiguous effects on systemic risk in the presence of …

investigate how the structure of those networks can affect the capacity of regulators to assess the level of systemic risk. We … of systemic risk in terms of expected losses. We further quantify the effects of cyclicality, leverage, volatility and …

superior. The intuition is simple: if underlying technologies are not convex, then risk-sharing can lower expected utility. The … likelihood of a bankruptcy cascade, "contagion," and systemic risk …