Two policies toward payments-system risk are common, but superficially appear to be contradictory. One policy is to restrict the exposure to risk generated by one participant to other participants who are, by one measure or another, directly concerned with the risky participant. The other policy...

In recent years, we have observed the dramatic increase of the use of collateral as an important credit risk mitigation tool. It has become even rare to make a contract without collateral agreement among the major financial institutions. In addition to the significant reduction of the...

This paper develops a new multi-agent model to create a novel warning signal for equity investment, which well replicates actual stock and bond futures price dynamics through estimating fund flows of typical trading agents. Particularly, our model contains four types of agents taking equity/bond...