Hedge fund industry has grown to be a key player in the financial markets. Just as large investment banks, the failure of this industry will greatly destroy the liquidity and stability of the whole system. However, contrast to regulated mutual funds, hedge funds are private and lightly regulated...

The financial crisis of 2007-2008 led to extraordinary government intervention in firms and markets. The scope and depth of government action rivaled that of the Great Depression. Many traded markets experienced dramatic declines in liquidity leading to the existence of conditions normally...

The global financial crisis that commenced in June 2007 has been described as the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in considerable international distress with almost all major banks experiencing capital shortages and some defaulting outright....

Measuring financial stress is a key research issue that has gained a lot of interest in the years following the extreme events from 2007. Although a lot of models were used for assessing and measuring financial stress, none of the managed to forecast the global crisis from 2007. We can identify...

Este estudio une los desarrollos recientes sobre la metodología de crecimiento en riesgo con la literatura sobre evaluaciones de impacto de la política macroprudencial. Para ello, extiendo el uso de regresiones cuantílicas del crecimiento del PIB con el objetivo de incluir variables...

Para los bancos centrales son cruciales el desarrollo y el mantenimiento de un marco de identificación de riesgos que permita la detección temprana de posibles amenazas para la estabilidad financiera y que facilite la aplicación de las políticas más adecuadas. Este documento resume los...

Este documento propone un indicador agregado de alerta temprana de riesgo sistémico en el sector bancario. El indicador se obtiene de la estimación de un modelo logístico basado en las variables del sistema americano de calificación de riesgo CAMELS, complementado con variables...