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Hector Perez Saiz is a Principal Researcher in the Financial Stability Department at the Bank of Canada. He is a microeconomist whose primary research interests center on the regulation and degree of competition of financial markets. Specific topics include clearing in over-the-counter markets, payment systems, and firm expansion. Hector Perez Saiz received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
The recent financial crisis has led to the development of new regulations to control risk in designated payment systems, and the implementation of new credit risk management standards is one of the key issues. In this paper, we study various credit risk management schemes for the Canadian retail payment system (ACSS) that are designed to cover the exposure of a defaulting member.
We measure systemic risk in the network of financial market infrastructures (FMIs) as the probability that two or more FMIs have a large credit risk exposure to the same FMI participant.
In the months preceding the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, banks were willing to pay a premium over the Federal Reserve’s discount window (DW) rate to participate in the much less flexible Term Auction Facility (TAF). We empirically test the predictions of a new signalling model that offers a rationale for offering two different liquidity facilities.
The payments landscape in Canada is rapidly changing and will continue to evolve, fuelled by strong and persistent drivers. In Canada, the Canadian Payments Association (CPA) is on a path to modernize Canada’s core payment systems.
This paper provides a framework to compare linked and unlinked CCP configurations in terms of total netting achieved by market participants and the total system default exposures that exist between participants and CCPs.
"To Link or not to Link? Netting and Exposures between Central Counterparties" (joint with Stacey Anderson and Jean-Philippe Dion), Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures, summer 2013
Work in progress
"The Consolidation of the US Mobile Telephone Industry" (joint with Jeremy Fox, in progress)
"Being Local or Going Global? Competition and Entry Barriers in the Canadian Banking Industry" (joint with Hongyu Xiao) (The Wharton School)
"The Effect of Campaign Contributions on State Banking Regulation and Bank Expansion in the U.S." (joint with Aggey Semenov) (University of Ottawa)