Musings on liquidity -- Financial crises and liquidity traffic jams -- Market structures and institutional arrangements of trading -- Asset pricing and liquidity models -- Stories of liquidity and credit -- Financial regulation and liquidity risk management

The paper focuses on the interaction between the solvency probability of a banking firm and the diversification potential of its asset portfolio when determining optimal equity capital. The purpose of this paper is to incorporate value at risk (VaR) into the firm-theoretical model of a banking...

Real and financial capital -- Risk and risk management -- Leverage -- Adverse selection and corporate financing decisions -- Capital budgeting, project selection, and performance evaluation -- Risk transfer -- Risk finance -- Insurance -- Reinsurance -- Credit insurance and financial guarantees...