between short-term repo and long-term investments that banks need to finance. The resulting rollover risk in repo financing … failing mechanism. I show that, as in the crisis, when collateral risk increases unexpectedly, the haircut and interest rate …

risk and to detect macrofinancial problems has become a central concern. In the United States, this concern has been …

risk and to detect macrofinancial problems has become a central concern. In the United States, this concern has been … Crises ; Macroprudential Risk ; Debt-Deflation Process ; Ponzi Finance …

The financial crisis exposed enormous failures of risk management by financial institutions and of the authorities … assess where the balance has been struck between the robustness and the risk sensitivity of the capital framework. This paper … fundamental tradeoffs that may exist between robustness, complexity, and risk sensitivity. We review the history of risk …

This paper evaluates the model risk of models used for forecasting systemic and market risk. Model risk, which is the … periods, the underlying risk forecast models produce similar risk readings; hence, model risk is typically negligible. However … the reliability of risk readings. Finally, particular conclusions on the underlying reasons for the high model risk and …

encouraging banks to pursue safer investments in low-risk government securities …

In this paper we propose a new measure for systemic risk: the Financial Risk Meter (FRM). This measure is based on the … parameters over the 100 largest US publicly traded financial institutions. We demonstrate the suitability of this risk measure by … comparing the proposed FRM to other measures for systemic risk, such as VIX, SRISK and Google Trends. We find that mutual …

Through the lens of market participants' objective to minimize counterparty risk, we investigate central clearing in … derivatives markets, and its interaction with systematic risk, portfolio directionality, and loss sharing. Previous studies … suggest that central clearing always reduces counterparty risk for a sufficiently large number of clearing members. We show …