liquidity risk and characterizes them. Both a solvency (leverage) and a liquidity ratio are required to control the … interpret the 2007 run on SIV and ABCP conduits. -- stress ; crises ; illiquidity risk ; insolvency risk ; leverage ratio …

We investigate the extent to which various structural risks exacerbate the materialization of cyclical risk. We use a … role in explaining the severity of cyclical and credit risk materialization during financial cycle contractions. Among …

The central problem for financial regulation is reducing systemic risk. Systemic risk is the risk that the failure of … paper addresses the five most important policies for dealing with systemic risk: the imposition of capital requirements, the … related limitations on bank size would not reduce systemic risk …

The Basel capital framework plays an important role in risk management by linking a bank's minimum capital requirements … to the riskiness of its assets. Nevertheless, the risk estimates underlying these calculations may be imperfect, and it … appears that a cyclical bias in measures of risk-adjusted capital contributed to procyclical increases in global leverage …

I analyze welfare properties of mutual funds in the Diamond-Dybvig model with two sources of aggregate risk …: undiversifiable interest rate risk and shocks to aggregate liquidity demand. Mutual funds are inefficient when the economy faces … undiversifiable interest rate risk. However, if only aggregate liquidity demand is stochastic, mutual funds can implement the social …

risk builds up, and a disclosure regime might consistently inducebetter beliefs but imply larger financing costs …