We investigate the effects of the announcement and the disclosure of the clarification, methodology, and outcomes of the US banking stress tests on banks' equity prices, credit risk, systematic risk, and systemic risk during the 2009-13 period. We find only weak evidence that stress tests after...

Climate risk is one of the type of risks in a bank's portfolio which is not fully recognized, and its impact on the future overall risk changes is hidden due to lack of sufficient knowledge at the moment. One of the most common data comes from Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)...

Wie in den dreißiger Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts wird als Reaktion auf die von einem instabilen Finanzsystem ausgelöste Wirtschaftskrise die Forderung erhoben, den Finanzsektor stärker zu regulieren und zu beaufsichtigen. Angeblich droht eine Destabilisierung der gesamten Wirtschaft,...

The divergence between increasingly supranational financial marketson the one hand and still largely national supervisory structures onthe other gives rise to tensions which reduce the effectiveness ofthe supervision.(...)

The recent crisis was characterized by massive illiquidity. This paper reviews what we know and don't know about illiquidity and all its friends: market freezes, fire sales, contagion, and ultimately insolvencies and bailouts. It first explains why liquidity cannot easily be apprehended through...