Geopolitical and geoeconomic shocks affect sovereign risk differently, with distinct transmission channels.
problem Understanding how geopolitical and geoeconomic shocks impact sovereign credit risk.
method Daily panel data of 42 economies over 2018-2025; semistructural framework; Shapley-Taylor decomposition; machine learning predictions; placebo and sign-restricted SVAR evidence.
result Geopolitical shocks primarily increase sovereign credit spreads through direct repricing, while geoeconomic shocks mainly affect spreads through financial conditions and policy uncertainty.
Inspired by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and its consequences on the global financial system, we develop a simple model in which the Lehman default event is quantified as having an almost immediate effect in worsening the credit worthiness of all financial institutions in the economic network. In our stylized desc…
In the last years, increasing efforts have been put into the development of effective stress tests to quantify the resilience of financial institutions. Here we propose a stress test methodology for central counterparties based on a network characterization of clearing members, whose links correspond to direct credits …
The paper analyzes XVA reduction strategies in financial crises using Mandatory Breaks, Restructuring, and Resets.
problem Challenges in client XVA management during crises when continuous collateralization is not feasible.
method Compares multiple trade strategies including Mandatory Breaks, Restructuring, and Resets.
result Resets can be twice as effective as Mandatory Breaks/Restructuring if there is no credit recovery. When recovery is at least 1/3, Mandatory Breaks/Restructuring can be more effective.
Extends ASRF model for green and brown loans, accounting for systematic and idiosyncratic risks.
problem Credit risk assessment for portfolios of green and brown loans.
method Two-factor copula structure, skewed distributions for systematic risk, Gaussian for idiosyncratic risk, non-uniform exposure setting.
result Portfolio loss convergence to a limit reflecting green and brown loan characteristics.
We propose a model and an estimation technique to distinguish systemic risk and contagion in credit risk. The main idea is to assume, for a set of d obligors, a set of d idiosyncratic shocks and a shock that triggers the default of all them. All shocks are assumed to be linked by a dependence relationship, that in …
Study quantifies financial contagion risks in supply chains.
problem Supply chain shocks contribute to financial losses.
method Multi-layer network framework, micro-dataset of Hungarian firms.
result Supply chain shocks amplify financial losses by 4-3x.
AXI assesses bank funding costs transparently, improving loan pricing and reducing financial risk.
problem Lack of credit-sensitive funding benchmarks after LIBOR transition.
method AXI aggregates unsecured funding transactions across maturities, producing a daily credit spread.
result AXI correlates with financial conditions and market stress, reducing funding risk and offering spread discounts.
The insufficient understanding of the credit network structure was recognized as a key factor for regulators' underestimation of the destructive systematic risk during the financial crisis that started in 2007. The existing credit network research either took a macro perspective to clarify the topological properties of…
This paper uses graph neural networks to predict SME default risk using transaction and ownership networks.
problem Predicting credit risk for SMEs facing limited financial histories and collateral constraints.
method Graph Neural Networks applied to multilayer network data of SME transactions and ownership.
result Combining network data with traditional data improves credit scoring and models contagion risk.
Model predicts insolvency risks in banks due to liquidity and credit risks.
problem Determining insolvency regions in banks due to non-linear interaction between liquidity and credit risks.
method Developed a continuous-time structural dynamic model integrating Basel III requirements into a stochastic optimal control framework. Used Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation to solve for insolvency boundary. Derived surrogate analytical approximation for real-time monitoring.
result Calibrated model reveals significant non-linear threshold effects and accelerates insolvency transition.
Improved hardness results for clearing payments in financial networks with CDSs.
problem Determining clearing payments in financial networks with CDSs after financial shocks.
method Analyzing computational complexity of clearing problems, showing PPAD-hardness and FIXP-completeness improvements.
result PPAD-hardness of clearing problem significantly improved to ε ≈ 0.101.
Develops a framework to assess systemic risk in the economy using bank-firm network data.
problem Measuring systemic risk in the economy using multilayer network data.
method Unified framework combining techniques to reconstruct multilayer economy structure from bank and firm balance sheets, and dynamics of shock propagation.
result Identifies systemically important firms and banks, and assesses systemic risk determinants.
Reduces complexity of financial contagion dynamics on networks.
problem Complexity of financial contagion dynamics on networks.
method Dimensional reduction methods (degree-weighted and spectral reduction).
result Spectral reduction better handles heterogeneous networks.
The aim of this paper is to introduce a synthetic ALM model that catches the main specificity of life insurance contracts. First, it keeps track of both market and book values to apply the regulatory profit sharing rule. Second, it introduces a determination of the crediting rate to policyholders that is close to the p…
Credit and liquidity risks represent main channels of financial contagion for interbank lending markets. On one hand, banks face potential losses whenever their counterparties are under distress and thus unable to fulfill their obligations. On the other hand, solvency constraints may force banks to recover lost funding…
Our knowledge about the evolution of guarantee network in downturn period is limited due to the lack of comprehensive data of the whole credit system. Here we analyze the dynamic Chinese guarantee network constructed from a comprehensive bank loan dataset that accounts for nearly 80% total loans in China, during 01/200…
Investors optimize equity and CDS trading to mitigate default risk.
problem Optimizing investment in equity and CDS markets to manage default risk.
method Semi-linear PDE for certainty equivalent, proving existence and optimality of policies.
result Optimal CDS policies cover both equity and future trading losses, increasing investor utility.
In this paper we estimate the propagation of liquidity shocks through interbank markets when the information about the underlying credit network is incomplete. We show that techniques such as Maximum Entropy currently used to reconstruct credit networks severely underestimate the risk of contagion by assuming a trivial…
The study reveals asymmetries in US financial shocks' international impacts.
problem Analyzing nonlinearities in international financial spillovers.
method Developed a flexible nonlinear multi-country model to capture asymmetries in responses to financial shocks.
result Adverse shocks trigger stronger declines in output, inflation, and stock markets than benign shocks.
Study shows local governments smooth fiscal shocks from property tax revenues.
problem Impact of revenue shocks on local fiscal policy.
method Causal machine learning strategies and post-double-selection LASSO estimator.
result Local policymakers predominantly smooth fiscal shocks, but react differently to positive and negative shocks.
The study uses Random Matrix Theory to identify structural changes in stock markets during shocks.
problem Understanding structural changes in stock markets during exogenous shocks.
method Random Matrix Theory and complexity gap analysis.
result The complexity gap collapses during shocks, indicating strong synchronization, and widens before shocks, signaling a rich structure.
In this paper we study the distributional properties of a vector of lifetimes in which each lifetime is modeled as the first arrival time between an idiosyncratic shock and a common systemic shock. Despite unlike the classical multidimensional Marshall-Olkin model here only a unique common shock affecting all the lifet…
We have analyzed the Indices of Industrial Production (Seasonal Adjustment Index) for a long period of 240 months (January 1988 to December 2007) to develop a deeper understanding of the economic shocks. The angular frequencies estimated using the Hilbert transformation, are almost identical for the 16 industrial secto…
Assessing the stability of economic systems is a fundamental research focus in economics, that has become increasingly interdisciplinary in the currently troubled economic situation. In particular, much attention has been devoted to the interbank lending market as an important diffusion channel for financial distress d…
Currency volatility shocks predict lower excess returns, and buying weak transmitters outperforms selling strong ones.
problem Predicting currency returns using volatility shocks.
method Constructed a dynamic, directed network of volatility connections using option-implied volatilities.
result Currencies that transmit more volatility shocks earn lower excess returns.
We empirically test the effects of unanticipated fiscal policy shocks on the growth rate and the cyclical component of real private output and reveal different types of asymmetries in fiscal policy implementation. The data used are quarterly U.S. observati ons over the period 1967:1 to 2011:4. In doing so, we use both …
New method quantifies market shocks and their effects.
problem Quantifying the impact and response to market shocks.
method Sparse probabilistic elliptical model with L0-norm regularization. result Shock patterns are related to network structure and sector diversification.
The 2008 financial crisis has been attributed to "excessive complexity" of the financial system due to financial innovation. We employ computational complexity theory to make this notion precise. Specifically, we consider the problem of clearing a financial network after a shock. Prior work has shown that when banks ca…
Paper addresses unbalanced data in common shock models for loss reserving.
problem Complications in capturing structural dependence with unbalanced data.
method Introduces a common shock Tweedie approach for unbalanced data.
result Better balance of common shock proportions and parsimonious solution.
This study assesses how economic shocks affect the efficiency and robustness of international pesticide trade networks.
problem Economic shocks impact the efficiency and robustness of international pesticide trade networks.
method Simulations were used to quantify efficiency and robustness under different economic shocks. Three strategies were tested: descending, random, and ascending node removal.
result The international pesticide trade networks became more efficient and robust except for clustering coefficient. Import-oriented economies were more vulnerable to shocks.
This paper investigates how economic shocks propagate and amplify through the input-output network connecting industrial sectors in developed economies. We study alternative models of diffusion on networks and we calibrate them using input-output data on real-world inter-sectoral dependencies for several European count…
Study on stochastic volatility models with external shocks triggering jump cascades.
problem Analyzing the impact of external shocks on jump dynamics in stochastic volatility models.
method Establishing scaling limits for a class of stochastic volatility models with self-exciting jump dynamics.
result External shocks can trigger endogenous jump cascades in asset returns and volatility.
New approach measures systemic risk by absorbing shocks before financial systems deteriorate.
problem Systemic risk evaluation without considering initial shocks.
method Linearized DebtRank and spectral graph theory for localized and uniform shocks; Monte Carlo simulations for heterogeneous shocks.
result Explicit computation and clear visualization of financial distress onset.
New method identifies uncertainty shocks in financial markets using revised VIX.
problem Traditional VIX fails to capture non-Gaussian, heavy-tailed asset returns.
method Fit a double-subordinated Normal Inverse Gaussian Levy process to S&P 500 option prices to construct a revised VIX.
result Revised VIX provides a more comprehensive measure of volatility reflecting extreme movements and heavy tails.
Using a modified damped harmonic oscillator model equivalent to a model of market dynamics with price expectations, we analyze the reaction of financial markets to shocks. In order to do this, we gather data from indices of a variety of financial markets for the 1987 Black Monday, the Russian crisis of 1998, the crash …
Finance is about how the continuous stream of news gets incorporated into prices. But not all news have the same impact. Can one distinguish the effects of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack or of the coup against Gorbachev on Aug., 19, 1991 from financial crashes such as Oct. 1987 as well as smaller volatility bursts? Using a …
Oil markets profoundly influence world economies through determination of prices of energy and transports. Using novel methodology devised in frequency domain, we study the information transmission mechanisms in oil-based commodity markets. Taking crude oil as a supply-side benchmark and heating oil and gasoline as dem…
We reverse engineer dynamics of financial contagion to find the scenario of smallest exogenous shock that, should it occur, would lead to a given final systemic loss. This reverse stress test can be used to identify the potential triggers of systemic events, and it removes the arbitrariness in the selection of shock sc…
Stress shocks are often calculated as multiples of the standard deviation of a history set. This paper investigates how many standard deviations are required to guarantee that this shock exceeds any observation within the history set, given the additional constraint of kurtosis. The results of this analysis are then us…
We investigate shock-wave solutions of the Einstein equations in the case when the speed of propagation is equal to the speed of light. The work extends the shock matching theory of Smoller and Temple, which characterizes solutions of the Einstein equations when the spacetime metric is only Lipschitz continuous across …
We establish a simple relation between curvatures of the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms and the lifespan of potential solutions to the inviscid Burgers equation before the appearance of shocks. We show that shock formation corresponds to a focal point of the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms regard…
Universal model for soft tissue mechanics under shock waves.
problem Modeling shock wave mechanics in soft biological tissues.
method Continuum mixture theory with phase-field mechanics.
result Universal thermodynamically consistent formulation for soft porous tissues.
Study historical cholera epidemics and simulate long-term mortality impacts.
problem Long-term impacts of mortality shocks on longevity.
method Historical analysis of cholera epidemics and mathematical modeling of stochastic Individual-Based models.
result Simulated long-term mortality impacts following a mortality shock.
Network models assume unrealistic idiosyncratic risk, which can be mitigated by allowing for correlated shocks.
problem Network models assume idiosyncratic risk, which can be unrealistic and lead to incorrect predictions.
method Proposed a production-based asset pricing model to account for substitutability between trade partners and correlation in supply and demand shocks.
result Assets positively exposed to average propagation of upstream and downstream shocks earn lower average risk premia.
New method disentangles shock diffusion on complex networks using graph planarity.
problem Difficult to identify shock sources and destinations in complex network dynamics.
method Combines vector autoregression with graph planarity to uniquely characterize shock propagation.
result Planarity of network allows statistical estimation of shock propagation paths.
Study optimal reinsurance and investment strategies under common shocks affecting financial and actuarial markets.
problem Maximizing expected exponential utility of terminal wealth in a company facing both ordinary and catastrophic claims.
method Modeling common shocks affecting financial and actuarial markets, using stochastic control and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations.
result Characterization of optimal reinsurance and investment strategies under common shock dependence.
This paper combines and develops the models in Lastrapes (2002) and Mankiw & Weil (1989), which enables us to analyze the effects of interest rate and population growth shocks on housing price in one integrated framework. Based on this model, we carry out policy simulations to examine whether the housing (stock or flow…