The financial crisis exposed enormous failures of risk management by financial institutions and of the authorities … assess where the balance has been struck between the robustness and the risk sensitivity of the capital framework. This paper … fundamental tradeoffs that may exist between robustness, complexity, and risk sensitivity. We review the history of risk …

The incremental risk charge (IRC) is a new regulatory requirement from the Basel Committee in response to the recent … generated. The second Monte Carlo simulation is the random draws based on the constant level of risk assumption. It convolutes …

In this paper we propose a new measure for systemic risk: the Financial Risk Meter (FRM). This measure is based on the … parameters over the 100 largest US publicly traded financial institutions. We demonstrate the suitability of this risk measure by … comparing the proposed FRM to other measures for systemic risk, such as VIX, SRISK and Google Trends. We find that mutual …

A systemic risk measure is proposed accounting for links and mutual dependencies between financial institutions … utilising tail event information. FRM (Financial Risk Meter) is based on Lasso quantile regression designed to capture tail … systemic risk at selected areas and identifies risk factors. In practice, FRM is applied to the return time series of selected …

that the calculation of the capital charge for CVA risk, as required by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, is … enough diversification of risk in a global credit portfolio to allow for a good hedge. Over the whole sample, the reduction … volatility are high. Increases in VIX, in the 10-year swap rate or in liquidity risk tend to decrease hedging efficiency …

Historical evidence like the global financial crisis from 2007-09 highlights that sector concentration risk can play an … II consider only name concentration risk explicitly in their solvency capital requirements for asset concentration risk … and neglect sector concentration risk. We show by means of US insurers' asset holdings from 2009 to 2018 that substantial …

Little is known about the location of bank risk, i.e., which investors in which countries hold bank-issued securities … like bonds and stocks. In this paper, we analyze the (re-)distribution of bank risk across asset classes (short- and long … contains information on securities holdings at the ISIN level. Our main findings are as follows. First, bank risk is held …

portfolio, one for market risk and one for credit risk. Similar approaches are common in banks’ internal models for economic … capital. Although it is known that joint market and credit risk of certain investments can be larger than the sum of risks … holdings or CDS portfolios – are also affected. There are realistic conditions under which credit risk (represented by ratings …

requirements are refined by adding a risk correction term that takes into account the interdependencies of the risks of different …

Financial institutions commonly face the risk that large trades will execute at unfavorable prices due to price impact … into smaller pieces and to trade these pieces sequentially over time. Such a strategy, however, is exposed to market risk …. Unlike price impact, market risk can be hedged. This paper explores the market risk management of the liquidation of a large …