The connections and volatilities of financial institutions are important features in studies on the financial market. Based on the tail-event-driven networks reflecting the risk interdependence between financial institutions, we introduce quantile regression to achieve the dynamic ranking of...

A growing literature suggests that in low-income countries, households with few assets can be trapped in chronic poverty. This article reviews relevant threads of the poverty traps literature to motivate a description of the opportunities presented by innovative index-based risk transfer...