The National Science Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts co‐sponsored a Workshop on Knowledge Representation and Information Management for Financial Risk Management on July 21 and 22, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia (see Flood, Kyle and Raschid, 2010). The goal of the workshop was to...

We provide a survey of 31 quantitative measures of systemic risk in the economics and finance literature, chosen to span key themes and issues in systemic risk measurement and management. We motivate these measures from the supervisory, research, and data perspectives in the main text and...

We elucidate the tradeoffs between transparency and confidentiality in the context of financial regulation. The structure of information in financial contexts creates incentives with a pervasive effect on financial institutions and their relationships. This includes supervisory institutions,...

We extract from the yield curve a new measure of fundamental economic uncertainty, based on McDiarmid's distance and related methods for optimal uncertainty quantification (OUQ). OUQ seeks analytical bounds on a system's behavior, even where the underlying data-generating process and system...