Financial institutions are increasingly using economic capital models to help determine the amount of capital they need to absorb unexpected losses. These models typically aggregate capital based on ...

Financial institutions can realize the full potential of economic capital as a planning tool to fulfill shareholder wealth if they are savvy in applying it, according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

In the past few years, there have been several developments in the field of modeling the credit risk in banks’ commercial loan portfolios. Credit risk is essentially the possibility that a bank’s loan ...

Tregaron Capital has acquired Economic Modeling Specialists Inc., an Idaho-based provider of labor statistics and economic impact studies. No financial terms were disclosed. EMSI was represented on ...

Twenty years ago Joshua Cooper Ramo, a consultant, first wrote about the “Beijing consensus”. The Washington consensus of financial liberalisation, floating currencies and openness to foreign capital ...

Explaining the evolution of the wealth distribution requires understanding the dynamics of consumption and savings. We analyze the dynamics of consumption and savings under uncertainty in labour ...

Nature has long been the invisible foundation of economic growth. Forests regulate climate, wetlands prevent floods, and healthy ecosystems and biodiversity underpin agriculture and human health. Yet ...