27/01/17
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Author(s): Patrice Muller, Graham Bishop, Shaan Devnani, Mark Lewis and Rohit Ladher (London Economics)
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The study paper examines how non-bank financial institutions (in particular money market funds, private equity firms, hedge funds, pension funds and insurance undertakings, central counterparties, and UCITS and ETFs) have performed over the last decade and during the financial crisis. The report addresses the risks run by each of this type of institutions (credit, counterparty, liquidity, redemption, and fire sales risk), and highlights also the risks arising from a number of activities frequently undertaken by these institutions, in particular securitisation (a.o. agency risk), securities lending (a.o. counterparty risk) and repos (a.o. liquidity risk).
The report finally provides a selected overview of approaches for the measurement of financial instability and financial distress.
| KC-AI-12-472-EN-N (online) | |
| ISBN 978-92-79-22993-0 (online) | |
| doi: 10.2765/27776 (online) |
Economic Papers are written by the staff of the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, or by experts working in association with them. The Papers are intended to increase awareness of the technical work being done by staff and to seek comments and suggestions for further analysis. The views expressed are the author’s alone and do not necessarily correspond to those of the European Commission.
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