A Survey of Systemic Risk Analytics

165 Pages Posted: 11 Jan 2012 Last revised: 16 Mar 2016

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Dimitrios Bisias

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Mark D. Flood

R. H. Smith School of Business, U. of Maryland

Andrew W. Lo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Laboratory for Financial Engineering

Stavros Valavanis

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Date Written: January 11, 2012

Abstract

We provide a survey of 31 quantitative measures of systemic risk in the economics and finance literature, chosen to span key themes and issues in systemic risk measurement and management. We motivate these measures from the supervisory, research, and data perspectives in the main text, and present concise definitions of each risk measure - including required inputs, expected outputs, and data requirements - in an extensive appendix. To encourage experimentation and innovation among as broad an audience as possible, we have developed open-source Matlab code for most of the analytics surveyed.

Keywords: systemic risk, financial institutions, liquidity, financial crises, risk management

JEL Classification: G12, G29, C51

Suggested Citation

Bisias, Dimitrios and Flood, Mark D. and Lo, Andrew W. and Valavanis, Stavros, A Survey of Systemic Risk Analytics (January 11, 2012). U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Financial Research No. 0001, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1983602 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1983602

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