Resaleable debt and systemic risk
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...
A response to Professor Paul A. Samuelson's objectionxs to Kelly capital growth investing
The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Strategy maximizes the expected utility of final wealth with a Bernoulli logarithmic utility function. In 1956...
Bank Risk Premia and Abenomics: The Return of the Japan Premium in the Cross-Currency Swap Market
This paper studies the change of the Japanese banking sector during the last two decades through the lens of money market risk premia. It makes two...
Marking to Market versus Taking to Market
While the debate on cost and market-value accounting has been raging for years, economists lack a framework allowing a comparison of their relative...
Synthetic or Real? The Equilibrium Effects of Credit Default Swaps on Bond Markets
Review of Financial Studies, 28 (12): 3303-3337.
Information Asymmetries, Volatility, Liquidity and the Tobin Tax
Information asymmetries and trading costs, in a financial market model with dynamic information, generate a self-exciting equilibrium price process...
Endogenous Market Making and Network Formation
This paper proposes a theory of intermediation in which intermediaries emerge endogenously as the choice of agents. In contrast to the previous...
Portfolio Optimization under Expected Shortfall: Contour Maps of Estimation Error
The contour maps of the error of historical resp. parametric estimates for large random portfolios optimized under the risk measure Expected Shortfall...
Endogenous Contractual Externalities
We study effort and risk-taking behaviour in an economy with a continuum of principal-agent pairs where each agent exerts costly hidden effort. When...
Interaction between monetary policy and bank regulation: Theory and European practice
The European Union has pursued a number of initiatives to create a safer and sounder financial sector for the single market. In parallel, bold...
Sovereign bond purchases and risk sharing arrangements: Sharing: Myth and Reality of the European QE
In March, the Eurosystem started to purchase on the secondary market euro-denominated bonds issued by governments, agencies and European institutions...
The macro-micro conflict
There has always been conflict between macro- and microeconomic regulation. Microeconomic policy reigns supreme during good times, and macro during...
Human Capital and International Portfolio Diversification: A Reappraisal
We study the implications of human capital hedging for international portfolio choice. First, we document that, at the household level, the degree of...
