We study the nature of home bias in online employment, wherein the employers prefer workers from their own home countries. Using a unique large-scale dataset from a major online labor platform, we identify employers' home bias in their online employment decisions. Moreover, we find that...

The financial crisis at the end of last decade has called for a comprehensive liquidity risk management framework. The challenge not only lies in finding appropriate liquidity risk measures but more importantly how to apply these measures to implement a risk based liquidity management. A core...

Portfolio risk measures such as Value at Risk is traditionally measured using a buy and hold assumption on the portfolio. In particular the 10-day market risk capital is commonly measured as the 1-day Value at Risk scaled by the square root of 10. While this scaling is convenient to obtain n-day...

The management of a liquid asset portfolio that can be used to generate counterbalancing capacity in liquidity distress is quickly emerging as a core function in banks. The new Basel III liquidity risk regulation underscores the importance in banks managing a liquidity contingency buffer. The...

The application of credit risk models in Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review and European Banking Authority mandated regulatory macroeconomic stress testing is of significant concern for banks. The credit models that are used to project stressed losses and impairments under macroeconomic...

With the focus on multi-horizon macroeconomic credit loss projection models in stress testing and impairments it is of interest to understand how different model assumptions can impact the projection under stressed and best estimate economic projections. In this paper we focus on the popular...