Saturday, May 25, 2013. 09:24 PM

My research papers, policy analysis and random thoughts on topics such as crisis, regulations and financial risk.

Jon Danielsson - London School of Economics

Procyclical Leverage and Endogenous Risk

Jon Danielsson, Hyun Song Shin and Jean-Pierre Zigrand
October 2012

We explore the extent to which financial conditions fluctuate due to fluctuations in leverage, and thereby connect the recent literature on banking crises with the leverage effect of Fisher Black. We solve for equilibrium leverage and volatility inclosed form in a model with financial intermediation and explore the consequences for risk premia, asymmetric volatility and option pricing.