Why are financial "institutions special" -- Financial services : depository institutions -- Financial services : finance companies -- Financial services : securities brokerage and investment banking -- Financial services : mutual funds and hedge funds -- Financial services : insurance -- Risks...

"The last 35 years have been dramatic for the financial services industry. In the 1990s and 2000s, boundaries between the traditional industry sectors, such as commercial banking and investment banking, broke down, and competition became increasingly global in nature. Many forces contributed to...

This paper sheds light on the impact of firms' risk measures on systemic risk. Firm risk, which is captured by the volatility of stock market returns, is also decomposed into systematic and idiosyncratic risk. Using a sample of 2,667 US banks for over 30 years, it is shown that idiosyncratic...