disequilibria are skyrocketing and default risk premiums and tensions within the Euro area are rising, thus jeopardizing the …

Assuming a risk-neutral bank and assuming household utility to be exponential, we show how under information symmetry …

We provide an economic valuation of the riskiness of risk models. We estimate the impact of model risks (estimation and … specification) on VaR estimates. We find that integrating the model risk into the VaR computations implies a substantial correction … relies on a backtesting framework, for integrating the global model risk into VaR estimates …

Econometrics of Individual Risk is the first book to provide a complete econometric methodology for quantifying and managing this … underappreciated but important variety of risk. The book presents a course in the econometric theory of individual risk illustrated by … empirical examples. And, unlike other texts, it is focused entirely on solving the actual individual risk problems businesses …

We present a model where bank assets are a portfolio of risky debt claims and analyze stockholders' risk … increases, risk shifting by borrowers increases, even if their leverage is unchanged (zombie lending). (2) While the literature … increase prevails through a second channel: an increase in risk shifting. (3) Risk shifting decreases with the diversification …