This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this … swap spread tends to converge to a long-run level, although trading risk can sometimes cause the spread to diverge from … that level. -- convergence trading ; interest rate swaps ; swap spread ; repurchase contracts ; trading risk ; volatility …

This paper investigates the incentives for banks to bias their internally generated risk estimates. We are able to … estimate bank biases at the credit level by comparing bank-generated risk estimates within loan syndicates. The biases are … credits. In addition, we find that low-capital banks’ risk estimates have less explanatory power than those of high …