Publications

The IMF’s latest Global Financial Stability Report devotes for the first time a chapter to the systemic risks potentially associated with the...

Since the onset of the Global Crisis in 2007-08, stress testing has emerged as a major component of the supervisory toolkit. This column introduces a...

Journal of Financial Stability, Volume 23, Pages 79-91.

Do Disaster risk and Fortune risk fetch a premium or discount in the pricing of individual assets? Disaster risk and Fortune risk are measures for the...

We construct a model of a principal-agent game of network formation (over layered networks) with asymmetric information and we consider the following...

We document that a trading strategy that is short the U.S. dollar and long other currencies exhibits significantly larger excess returns on days with...

This special paper discusses the inclusion of the Chinese Renminbi in the international reserve asset Special Drawing Right (SDR) created by the...

Many debt claims, such as bonds, are resaleable, whereas others, such as repos, are not. There was a fivefold increase in repo borrowing before the...

The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Strategy maximizes the expected utility of final wealth with a Bernoulli logarithmic utility function. In 1956...

While the debate on cost and market-value accounting has been raging for years, economists lack a framework allowing a comparison of their relative...

This paper proposes a theory of intermediation in which intermediaries emerge endogenously as the choice of agents. In contrast to the previous...

There has always been conflict between macro- and microeconomic regulation. Microeconomic policy reigns supreme during good times, and macro during...

Economics and game theory are replete with examples of parameterized games. We show that all minimal Nash payoff USCOs belonging to the Nash...

We analyse bank runs under fundamental and asset liquidity risk, adopting a realistic description of bank default. We obtain an unique run equilibrium...

How would a unilateral Greek default affect politics and policy elsewhere in Europe? A Greek default is more likely to strengthen voter support across...

Iceland has just announced it is getting rid of its capital controls. This column argues that the government’s plan is a credible, efficient and fair...