We consider a budget-constrained mechanism designer who selects an optimal set of projects to maximize her utility. A project's cost is private information and its value for the designer may vary. In this allocation problem, the selection of projects - both which and how many - is endogenously...

In this chapter, some of the many prominent and recent papers in the systemic risk literature are reviewed. In all these papers, financial econometrics methods are used whether to extract the connections between institutions or assets by analyzing the related data or to construct a measure of...