of business. The concern was apparently brevity risk, i.e., the risk of premature death. The brevity risk due to a … pandemic is similar to the property risk associated with catastrophic events such as earthquakes and hurricanes and the … security used to hedge the risk is similar to a CAT bond. This work looks at the incentives associated with insurance …

I propose a theory of debt maturity as an incentive device to motivate innovation when contracts are fundamentally … partially insures the entrepreneur against failure and thus motivates innovation. The theory has novel empirical implications …

risk measures for portfolios with infrequently traded securities have not been explored in the literature. We propose a … methodology to calculate market risk measures based on the Kalman filter which can be used on incomplete datasets. We implement … applied to other markets with thinly traded securities. Our methodology provides reliable market risk measures in portfolios …

portfolio, one for market risk and one for credit risk. Similar approaches are common in banks’ internal models for economic … capital. Although it is known that joint market and credit risk of certain investments can be larger than the sum of risks … holdings or CDS portfolios – are also affected. There are realistic conditions under which credit risk (represented by ratings …

Under the Basel II regulatory framework non-negligible statistical problems arise when backtesting risk measures. In …. According to Escanciano and Olmo (2010, 2011) these problems persist when incorporating estimation and model risk by adjusting … adequacy of Value at Risk measures. One main finding indicates that backtests of all classes show heavy size distortions. These …

We introduce and study the main properties of a class of convex risk measures that refine Expected Shortfall by … adjusted Expected Shortfalls quantify risk as the minimum amount of capital that has to be raised and injected into a financial … probability level p\in[0,1]. Through the choice of the benchmark risk profile g one can tailor the risk assessment to the specific …

In this paper we propose a new measure for systemic risk: the Financial Risk Meter (FRM). This measure is based on the … parameters over the 100 largest US publicly traded financial institutions. We demonstrate the suitability of this risk measure by … comparing the proposed FRM to other measures for systemic risk, such as VIX, SRISK and Google Trends. We find that mutual …

We introduce a class of quantile-based risk measures that generalize Value at Risk (VaR) and, likewise Expected … probability of occurrence. The corresponding risk measure, called Loss VaR (LVaR), determines the minimal capital injection that … and applications to capital adequacy, portfolio risk management and catastrophic risk are presented …

, we study the implications of the interaction between incentive compatibility and participation constraints for risk …