We show that the impact of government bailouts (liquidity injections) on a representative bank's risk taking depends on the level of systematic risk of its loans portfolio. In a model where bank's output follows a geometric Brownian motion and the government guarantees bank's liabilities, we...

This paper studies equilibria for economies characterized by moral hazard (hidden action), in which the set of contracts marketed in equilibrium is determined by the interaction of financial intermediaries. The crucial aspect of the environment that we study is that intermediaries are restricted...

Die Finanzmarktregulierung ist auch eine Frage sozialer Nachhaltigkeit. Ist sie unzureichend, können Ungleichgewichte verschärft werden: privaten Gewinnen stehen dann soziale Verluste gegenüber. Trotz der Finanzmarktkrise profi tieren Vermögende stärker von Anlagen auf den Finanzmärkten....

The paper argues that financial deregulation incentivized financial firms to take excessive risks and over-expand because it turned social insurance against systemic risk into a common pool (or open) resource. The increased size and complexity of deregulated financial markets in turn raised the...

One of the most important recent innovations in financial markets has been the development of credit derivative products that allow banks to more actively manage their credit portfolios than ever before.We analyse the effect that access to these markets has had on the lending behaviour of a...

We build a model of the financial sector to explain why adverse asset shocks in good economic timeslead to a sudden drying up of liquidity. Financial firms raise short-term debt in order to finance assetpurchases. When asset fundamentals worsen, debt induces firms to risk-shift; this limits...

After the shock to the global financial system and world economy in 2008, period that followed is one of analysis and conclusions. What has changed dramatically, compared to last period, is the level of recognition that global risks, like the world, are now tightly interconnected and shocks and...