This paper highlights the spread of banking panics across countries, as the public reassesses governments' propensity to bailouts. Policymakers decide whether to rescue a failing banking sector, by weighing the costs of a collapse against the costs associated with raising taxes to finance a...

This paper shows that pricing catastrophe bonds boils down to computing first-passage time distributions of jump-diffusion processes. It derives a generic valuation expression by assuming that the jump risk is not systematic and then performs simulations, which can stress the sensitivity of...

This paper highlights the spread of banking panics across countries, as the public reassesses governments' propensity to bailouts. Policymakers decide whether to rescue a failing banking sector, by weighing the costs of a collapse against the costs associated with raising taxes to finance a...

This paper shows that pricing catastrophe bonds boils down to computing first-passage time distributions of jump-diffusion processes. It derives a generic valuation expression by assuming that the jump risk is not systematic and then performs simulations, which can stress the sensitivity of...