Banks require intraday liquidity to settle payments in CHAPS, the United Kingdom's high-value sterling payment system. In April 2013, the Bank of England introduced a Liquidity Saving Mechanism (LSM) into the infrastructure used to settle CHAPS payments. The LSM has reduced CHAPS banks' intraday...

Analysing the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we present a new empirical method to investigate the extent to which households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach - termed a deflated fractional ordered probit model -...