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Statistical Assessments of Systemic Risk Measures


Carole Bernard


University of Waterloo

Eike Christian Brechmann


Technische Universität München (TUM)

Claudia Czado


Technische Universität München (TUM)

April 11, 2012


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In this paper we review existing statistical measures for systemic risk and discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Among them we discuss the Conditional Value-at-Risk (CoVaR) introduced by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2010) and the Systemic Expected Shortfall (SES) of Acharya, Pedersen, Philippon and Richardson (2011). Systemic risk is also highly related to financial contagion and we will explain drawbacks and advantages of looking at “coexceedances” (simultaneous extreme events) or at the local changes in “correlation” that have been proposed in the literature on financial contagion (Bae, Karolyi and Stulz (2003), Baig and Goldfajn (1999) and Forbes and Rigobon (2002)).

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Date posted: May 12, 2012  

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Bernard, Carole, Brechmann, Eike Christian and Czado, Claudia, Statistical Assessments of Systemic Risk Measures (April 11, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2056619 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2056619

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Carole Bernard (Contact Author)
University of Waterloo ( email )
waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
Canada
Eike Christian Brechmann
Technische Universität München (TUM) ( email )
Arcisstrasse 21
Munich, 80333
Germany
Claudia Czado
Technische Universität München (TUM) ( email )
Arcisstrasse 21
Munich, 80333
Germany
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