Open-end mutual funds offer investors same-day liquidity while holding assets that in some cases take several days to sell. This liquidity transformation creates a potentially destabilizing first-mover advantage: when asset prices fall, investors who exit a fund earlier may pass the liquidation...

This paper develops methods for selecting and analyzing stress scenarios for financial risk assessment, with particular emphasis on identifying sensible combinations of stresses to multiple variables. We begin by focusing on reverse stress testing — finding the most likely scenarios leading to...

Regulatory stress tests have become a key tool for setting bank capital levels. Publicly disclosed results for four rounds of stress tests suggest that as the stress testing process has evolved, its outcomes have become more predictable and therefore arguably less informative. In particular,...

An important recent development in the pricing of interest rate derivatives is the emergence of models that incorporate lognormal volatilities for forward Libor or forward swap rates while keeping interest rates stable. These market models\/ have three attractive features: they preclude...