This study calibrates the term structure of risk premia before and during the 2007/2008 financial crisis using a new … calibration approach based on credit default swaps. The risk premium term structure was flat before the crisis and downward … sloping during the crisis. The instantaneous risk premium increased significantly during the crisis, whereas the long-run mean …

The financial crisis has highlighted the need for models that can identify counterparty risk exposures and shock … extend this accounting-based network of interlinked exposures to risk-based balance sheets which are sensitive to changes in … constitute important channels through which local risk exposures and balance sheet dislocations can be transmitted, with the …

decision problem of using self-governance for risk sharing or governance through enforcement provided by these institutions … prevent first-best risk sharing, but never optimal to provide incentives exclusively via this technology. Commitment problems …

international equity transactions that accentuate the role of international risk sharing as a factor for the macroeconomic response … shock affecting only one country. Efficient global risk-sharing imply that expected productivity gains in one country will … for the productivity gains can further increase the risk exposure of foreign shareholders. The model is calibrated to show …