Its conceptual appeal has made the Conditional Value at Risk (CoVaR) one of the most influential systemic risk indicators. Despite its popularity, an outstanding methodological challenge may hamper the CoVaRs’ accuracy in measuring the time-series dimension of systemic risk. The dynamics of...

Current standards prohibit the capitalization of internally created intangibles, resulting in a downward bias of reported assets. We estimate a capitalization model using market prices of intangibles to estimate the parameters of the capital accumulation process. Two settings provide intangible...

Modern companies work in the conditions of so called New economy, where the knowledge becomes the basic economic resource. Traditional resources as land, capital and labour are determined by diminishing returns; knowledge instead is connected with increasing returns. Knowledge that can be used...

I develop and estimate a novel dynamic model of the secondary market trading of intangible assets in an environment where financial market frictions interfere with firm investment. Intangible asset trading (IAT) not only serves as an alternative means of financing but also reallocates investment...

This paper characterizes the probability of a market failure defined as the default of two or more globally systemically important banks (G-SIBs) in a small interval of time. The default probabilities of the G-SIBs are correlated through the possible existence of a market-wide stress event. The...