Recent regulation, mandating the clearing of credit default swaps (CDS) by a Central Clearing Counterparties (CCP), has rendered it's possible failure a serious threat to global nancial stability. This work investigates the potential failure of a CCP initiated by the default of a large dealer...

We consider the problem of systemic risk assessment in interbank networks in which interbank liabilities can have multiple maturities. In particular, we allow for both short-term and long-term interbank liabilities. We develop a clearing mechanism for the interbank liabilities to deal with the...

In 2016, Russia's stock market, in terms of its rates of return, set a world record among all the other stock markets. Over that year, the RTS Index gained 52.3%, and the MICEX Index –26.8% (Fig. 1). The faster growth rate of the RTS Index, which reflects the price of shares in US dollar...

We study solvency contagion risk in the UK banking system from 2008 to 2015. We develop a model that only accounts for losses transmitted after banks default, but also for losses due to the fact that creditors revalue their exposures when probabilities of default of their counterparties change....

By their very nature, resolution actions under the legal framework for the management of bank insolvencies created by the European Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) and the Regulation establishing the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRMR) come with infringements of rights of...

This paper argues that first passage time models are likely to better than affine hazard rate models in modelling stressed credit markets and confirms their superior performance in explaining the behavior of Credit Default Swap rates for the major US banking groups over the period of the...

This paper empirically examines whether better governance necessarily reduces financial distress for banks.We have studied 49 banks among the TOP 100 European banks during the period 2006 to 2013 and performed a panel probit regression analysis on the financial distress dummy as our dependent...

The relative costs of misclassifying institutions by their financial health is an issue that concerns researchers. In this paper, a model and decision rule are developed that improve the probability of identifying those Savings and Loans that are predicted not to fail, but are actually failing....

The need to make and receive payments lies at the heart of every business. It could be a customer purchasing goods or services or a company making payments to its suppliers or a bank account holder transacting with his or her bank. The emergence of advanced information technologies has brought...

The main objective of this study is the development of the model for predicting illiquidity, i.e. identification of financial indicators on the basis of which one can predict illiquidity. The research focus is on large companies in the Republic of Serbia. Bearing in mind the results of previous...