Category: Financial Markets
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What drives the volatility of bitcoin prices
How does monetary policy tightening by the ECB or the Fed affect bitcoin prices? How about geopolitical risks?
Towards a more accurate assessment of consumer credit risk
The use of machine learning models to forecast consumer credit risk increases prediction accuracy, but also leads to social benefits.
Politics and financial regulation
How do politicians decide whether to regulate financial markets and which agencies should implement the new regulations.
Recent developments in the crypto ecosystem
The crypto ecosystem expanded and grew rapidly in 2021. Despite the challenges these assets might pose to financial stability, history shows that we are entering a new cycle in monetary history.
Shareholders vs Stakeholders, part B
Two years ago a number of U.S. CEOs signed a pledge that they would lead their companies in the interests of all stakeholders, not just shareholders. Did they?
Climate stress testing
Three recent research papers on: Pushing the modelling frontier, a new stress testing methodology and a review of recently conducted climate stress tests.
The U.S. Treasury market: the March 2020 dislocations and reform
What happened in the U.S. Treasury market in March 2020? How did the Fed react? What are the reforms that will increase liquidity of the Treasury market.
On credit rating agencies
Do political beliefs affect credit analysts’ ratings? Has credit rating inflation driven the recent growth in the U.S. BBB rated bond segment?
A new theory of financial fluctuations
Gabaix and Koijen on the “Inelastic Markets Hypothesis.”