Do catastrophe bonds increase or decrease the exposure and contribution to systemic risk of the issuing insurance companies? And if such issues influence systemic stability, what design features of the bond and characteristics of the issuing insurer cause catastrophe bond issues to destabilize...

Part I. New Trends in International Financial Development and Risk Assessment -- Chapter 1. Adapted Approaches to Measuring Financial Development Konstantin Krinichansky -- Chapter 2. Green Finance: Trends, Prospects and Risks Svetlana Pertseva , Anna Vityazeva -- Chapter 3. Dynamic BRICS Stock...

We make three points. First, the decade before the financial crisis in 2007 was characterized by a collapse in the yield on TIPS. Second, estimated VARs for the federal funds rate and the TIPS yield show that while monetary policy shocks had negligible effects on the TIPS yield, shocks to the...