by SIMPOL | Apr 27, 2017 | Conferences
CALL FOR PAPERS for the Second Conference on Network Models and stress testing for financial stability Banco de México, the University of Zurich, the Bank of Canada and the Journal of Financial Stability continue with the series of biennial conferences addressing...
by Stefano Battiston | Mar 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Climate change brings new risks for financial investments, in particular for pension funds. An international team coordinated by the Dept. of Banking and Finance of the Univ. of Zurich develops a “climate stress-test” for financial institutions. Results suggest that...
by Stefano Battiston | Aug 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Financial complexity is often assumed to help hedging risk more effectively. But complexity can also be a source of collective moral hazard. While practitioners have an intuition of why complexity may be a problem, our new research provides a simple mathematical...