We review heterogeneous agent-based models of financial stability and their application in stress tests. In contrast to the mainstream approach, which relies heavily on the rational expectations assumption and focuses on situations where it is possible to compute an equilibrium, this approach...

By stepping between bilateral counterparties, a central counterparty (CCP) transforms credit exposure. CCPs generally improve financial stability. Nevertheless, large CCPs are by nature concentrated and interconnected with major global banks. Moreover, although they mitigate credit risk, CCPs...

This article seeks to consider the relationship between the sentiment of newswire messages for a set of major international banks and changes in two important credit measures; the LIBOR-OIS spread and the CDS spread. There is a significant and negative relationship between news sentiment and...

The most recent global credit mishap of 2008, the worst financial catastrophe of the 21st century, succeeded the Great Depression of the 1930s as the worst event of all times, and used in stress testing under severely adverse scenario analysis. Rather promoting financial stability, the Basel...

Uniswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) and was first launched on November 2, 2018 on the Ethereum mainnet [1] and is part of an Ecosystem of products in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). It replaces a traditional order book type of trading common on centralized exchanges (CEX) with a...

Since the 2008 Financial Crisis, stress tests based on extreme-yet-plausible scenarios have become a preferred method of assessing risk for large financial institutions, yet scenario choice has largely been ad-hoc. We propose a principled methodology to choose scenarios by minimizing the...

This paper explores the extent to which macroprudential tools can be used to manage banking sector risks in Mongolia, a commodity producing country exposed to both procyclical and cross-sectional financial sector risks. Loose fiscal policy, rising credit activity, and heightened risk appetite...

We study the effects of the interplay between deregulation and governance on risk taking in the financial industry. We consider a large natural experiment in Spain where the removal of regulatory geographic constraints for savings banks led to a nationwide expansion of these banks during the...

We construct a new systemic risk measure that quantifies vulnerability to fire-sale spillovers using detailed regulatory balance sheet data for U.S. commercial banks and repo market data for broker-dealers. Even for moderate shocks in normal times, fire-sale externalities can be substantial. For...