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We address the paradox that financial innovations aimed at risk-sharing appear to have made the world riskier. Financial innovations facilitate hedging idiosyncratic risks among agents; however, aggregate risks can be hedged only with liquid assets. When risk-sharing is primitive, agents...
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We address the paradox that financial innovations aimed at risk-sharing appear to have made the world riskier. Financial innovations facilitate hedging idiosyncratic risks among agents; however, aggregate risks can be hedged only with liquid assets. When risk-sharing is primitive, agents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822763
We review heterogeneous agent-based models of financial stability and their application in stress tests. In contrast to the mainstream approach, which relies heavily on the rational expectations assumption and focuses on situations where it is possible to compute an equilibrium, this approach...
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We apply text analysis to Twitter messages in Spanish to build a sentiment- based risk index for the financial sector in Mexico. We classify a sample of tweets for the period 2006-2019 to identify messages in response to positive or negative shocks to the Mexican financial sector. We use a...
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We apply sentiment analysis to Twitter messages in Spanish to build a sentiment risk index for the financial sector in Mexico. We classify a sample of tweets from 2006-2019 to identify messages in response to a positive or negative shock to the Mexican financial sector, relative to merely...
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concordance with the Basel guidelines as applied by a bank supervisor. The findings show that SRISK produced a more consistent …
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In this paper we gauge the degree of interconnectedness and quantify the linkages between global and other systemically important institutions, and the global financial system. We document that the two groups and the financial system become more interconnected during the global financial crisis...
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This paper uses high frequency market value data on credit default swap spreads and intra-day stock prices to measure systemic risk in the insurance sector. Using the systemic risk measure, we examine the inter-connectedness between banks and insurers with Granger causality tests. Based on...
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We provide evidence on how banks form network connections and endogenous risk-taking in their non-bank counterparty … existing relationship, with non-bank counterparties that are already heavily connected and exposed to other banks. Banks in …. The effects are strongest in the case of (non-bank) financial counterparties. These findings suggest moral hazard behavior …
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