Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: What Can We Learn from Option Markets?

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Holger Kraft

Goethe University Frankfurt

Alexander Schmidt

Deutsche Bundesbank

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Date Written: December 14, 2014

Abstract

We propose a novel approach on how to estimate systemic risk and identify its key determinants. For US financial companies with publicly traded equity options, we extract option-implied value-at-risks and measure the spillover effects between individual company value-at-risks and the option-implied value-at-risk of a financial index. First, we study the spillover effect of increasing company risks on the financial sector. Second, we analyze which companies are mostly affected if the tail risk of the financial sector increases. Key metrics such as size, leverage, market-to-book ratio and earnings have a significant influence on the systemic risk profiles of financial institutions.

Keywords: Systemic risk, Value-at-risk, Equity options, Implied volatility, Panel vector autoregression

JEL Classification: G01, G28, G32

Suggested Citation

Kraft, Holger and Schmidt, Alexander, Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector: What Can We Learn from Option Markets? (December 14, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2288073 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2288073

Holger Kraft (Contact Author)

Goethe University Frankfurt ( email )

Faculty of Economics and Business
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 3
Frankfurt am Main, 60323
Germany

Alexander Schmidt

Deutsche Bundesbank ( email )

Wilhelm-Epstein-Str. 14
Frankfurt/Main, 60431
Germany

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