Youth is one of the phases in the life-cycle when some of the most decisive life transitions take place. Entering the labour market or leaving parental home are events with important consequences for the economic well-being of young adults. In this paper, the interrelationship between...

In this paper, we develop a framework for measuring, allocating and managing systemic risk. SystRisk, our measure of total systemic risk, captures the a priori cost to society for providing tail-risk insurance to the financial system. Our allocation principle distributes the total systemic risk...

We investigate the feedback effect of option hedging activity on the stability of the price of the underlying. While previous literature has focused on the effect of hedging activity on the volatility of the underlying, this paper focuses on directional instabilities arising from feedback...