G - Financial Economics

• An Analysis of Closure Policy under Alternative Regulatory Structures

  Staff Working Paper 2005-11 Greg Caldwell

  The author develops a theoretical model of bank closure. The regulatory decision about bank failure consists of two parts: whether to close and how to close.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): G, G2, G21, G28

• State Dependence in Fundamentals and Preferences Explains Risk-Aversion Puzzle

  Staff Working Paper 2005-9 Fousseni Chabi-Yo, René Garcia, Eric Renault

  The authors examine the ability of economic models with regime shifts to rationalize and explain the risk-aversion and pricing-kernel puzzles put forward in Jackwerth (2000).

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): G, G1, G12, G13