The paper reports the outcome of the stress-testing of liquidity risk in the TARGET2 payment system, with the study … resilience of the system, defined as the network of its participants, and the appropriateness of liquidity levels under tightened … liquidity conditions. The scenarios analysed are based on extreme shocks to the value of collateral of different levels and …

Utility and risk are two often competing measurements on the investment success. We show that efficient trade … of utility and risk. This is a rather general pattern. The modern portfolio theory of Markowitz (1959) and the capital … market pricing model Sharpe (1964), are special cases of our general framework when the risk measure is taken to be the …