We consider environmental risks that are evaluated too much heavy for a single insurance company, but they can be …

assets by secondary market investors. This hampers a troubled bank's recourse to liquidity and increases the incidence of … bank runs, potentially unleashing a wave of investor pessimism that can drive otherwise solvent banks into illiquidity. We … quantify this contagion channel in the context of the Bank of Canada's model of the Canadian banking system and a stress …