This study sheds light on risk exposures of cooperative banks in Austria, Germany and Italy. We investigate how major risk elements of banks in these countries have evolved over time, across countries and institutions. Cooperative banks’ exposure to risk is analyzed looking at aggregate risk...

Financial stress indices (FSIs) involve the weighting and compilation of different sub-indices and indicators into an overall measure of systemic stress. Despite the importance of weighting with regard to the relevance of single indices or indicators (structural effect), the behavior of the...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Framework of Financial Water Risk -- Chapter 2: Drivers of water risk and their interaction -- Chapter 3: Water risk and climate change -- Chapter 4: Interaction effects of water risk in finance and society -- Chapter 5: Opportunities from water risk -- Part...