I build a dynamic model of the shadow banking system that intermediates funds through the interbank repo market to understand its failing mechanism during the recent financial crisis. The model emphasizes a key friction, the maturity mismatch between short-term repo and long-term investments...

Operational risk is a substantial source of risk for US banks. Improving the performance of operational risk models' allows banks' management to make better risk decisions by better matching economic capital and risk appetite, and allows regulators to better understand the risk of banks. We show...

We investigate causality between returns on sovereign CDSs and bank equities for Poland between 2004 and 2014 to provide evidence on contagion between sovereign and banking sector risk pricing. We find some evidence of contagion from Polish sovereign CDS returns to bank equity returns during the...

Operational risk is a substantial source of risk for US banks. Improving the performance of operational risk models allows banks’ management to make more informed risk decisions by better matching economic capital and risk appetite, and allows regulators to enhance their understanding of...