Kinship and Financial Networks, Formal Financial Access, and Risk Reduction

Kinship and Financial Networks, Formal Financial Access, and Risk Reduction

Many risks are present in rural developing economies: illness, weather, the sudden need to finance an investment opportunity, etc. Yet for many households in rural developing economies, consumption and investment are insured against short-term, idiosyncratic risks to a large extent, despite limited availability of formal banking and insurance products. The importance of kinship networks in faci...

Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks

We provide a framework for studying the relationship between the financial network architecture and the likelihood of systemic failures due to contagion of counterparty risk. We show that financial contagion exhibits a form of phase transition as interbank connections increase: as long as the magnitude and the number of negative shocks affecting financial institutions are sufficiently small, mo...

FINANCIAL STRUCTURE, SAVING AND GROWTH: SAFETY NETS, REGULATION, AND RISK REDUCTION IN GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS By

Financial Structure, Saving and Growth: Safety Nets, Regulation, and Risk Reduction in Global Financial Markets

Financial Risk Measurement for Financial Risk Management∗

Current practice largely follows restrictive approaches to market risk measurement, such as historical simulation or RiskMetrics. In contrast, we propose flexible methods that exploit recent developments in financial econometrics and are likely to produce more accurate risk assessments, treating both portfoliolevel and asset-level analysis. Asset-level analysis is particularly challenging becau...