This paper studies the extent to which risk-taking incentives of CEOs and other governance features in a range of years prior to the recent financial crisis were related to the write-downs of U.S. financial institutions during the crisis. We document that institutions whose CEOs had particularly...

In this paper we propose a new approach to modelling and estimating yield curves across multiple currency areas. The idea is that one area acts as the 'cardinal' economy by affecting the yield curve evolution in the other markets. To some extent, the yield curve factors of the 'cardinal economy'...

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