This paper studies fund flows and risk allocation decisions among prime money market funds (MMFs) during the 2011–2012 eurozone crisis. We exploit much more granular measures of fund credit risk and investor sophistication than previously employed in the literature. Empirically, we find that funds with greater credit risks experienced larger outflows during the eurozone crisis. This effect was ...

Credit risk is the distribution of financial loss due to a broken financial agreement, for example failure to pay interest or principal on a loan or bond. It pervades virtually all financial transactions, and therefore plays a significant role in financial markets. A credit derivative is a security that allows investors to transfer credit risk to other investors who are willing to take it. By f...

While credit plays an instrumental role in housing price dynamics, existing work has produced conflicting evidence of its real impact. This paper reconciles various inconclusive findings via a disaggregation strategy to decompose aggregate into credit-to-the-real economy (cr) and credit-to-the-asset markets (cf ). We argue that these two components exert theoretically expected distinct impacts ...

This paper investigates the optimal asset allocation of a financial institution whose customers are free to withdraw their capital-guaranteed contracts at any time. In accounting for asset-liability mismatch risk institution, we present general utility optimization problem in discrete-time setting and provide dynamic programming principle investment strategies. Furthermore, consider an explicit...

For credit risk management purposes in general, and for allocation of regulatory capital by banks in particular (Basel II), numerical assessments of the credit-worthiness of borrowers are indispensable. These assessments are expressed in terms of probabilities of default (PD) that should incorporate a certain degree of conservatism in order to reflect the prudential risk management style banks ...

Transaction costs in financial intermediation are a measure of the 'friction' existing in the functioning of financial markets. The higher the costs of intermediation, the less efficient the performance of the financial sector in resource allocation and distribution. Transaction costs frequently increase as a result of regulations imposed on financial markets, such as interest-rate restrictions...

This paper investigates the finite-sample behaviour of sovereign credit migration estimators and analyzes the properties of the rating process. Through bootstrap simulations, we compare a discrete multinomial estimator and two continuous hazard rate methods which differ in that one neglects time heterogeneity in the rating process whereas the other accounts for it. The study is based on Moody’s...

While there has been significant discussion in the health sciences and ethics literatures about problems associated with publication practices (e.g., ghost- and gift-authorship, conflicts of interest), there has been relatively little practical guidance developed to help researchers determine how they should fairly allocate credit for multi-authored publications. Fair allocation of credit requi...