Financial crisis

Banks in crisis

The peak of the global financial crisis arrived in 2008 with the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and a raft of bailouts. However, it had already been rumbling on for a year at that point, blowing holes in bank funding models and capital…

Value-at-risk and the global financial crisis

The authors investigate the forecasting ability of bank VaR estimates around the 2007-9 financial crisis using daily data from seven international banks, finding systemic overstating of VaR either side of the financial crisis and mixed performance during…

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