Hedge funds, financial intermediation, and systemic risk

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Hedge funds are significant players in the U.S. capital markets, but differ from other market participants in important ways such as their use of a wide range of complex trading strategies and instruments, leverage, opacity to outsiders, and their compensation structure. The traditional bulwark against financial market disruptions with potential systemic consequences has been the set of counterparty credit risk management (CCRM) practices by the core of regulated institutions. The characteristics of hedge funds make CCRM more difficult as they exacerbate market failures linked to agency problems, externalities, and moral hazard. While various market failures may make CCRM imperfect, it remains the best line of defense against systemic risk.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Staff Report ; No. 291

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates ; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
• Subject: banks, counterparty credit risk management, liquidity ; Hedgefonds ; Finanzintermediär ; Kreditrisiko ; Systemrisiko

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kambhu, John ; Schuermann, Til ; Stiroh, Kevin J.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• (where): New York, NY
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/60660
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET