Measuring and Allocating Systemic Risk

23 Pages Posted: 29 Dec 2013 Last revised: 23 Apr 2019

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Markus K. Brunnermeier

Princeton University - Department of Economics

Patrick Cheridito

ETH Zurich

Date Written: April 1, 2019

Abstract

In this paper we develop a framework for measuring, allocating and managing systemic risk. SystRisk, our measure of total systemic risk, captures the a priori cost to society for providing tail-risk insurance to the financial system. Our allocation principle distributes the total systemic risk among individual institutions according to their size-shifted marginal contributions. To describe economic shocks and systemic feedback effects we propose a reduced form stochastic model that can be calibrated to historical data. We also discuss systemic risk limits, systemic risk charges and a cap and trade system for systemic risk.

Keywords: Systemic risk measure, systemic risk allocation, feedback effects, shadow prices, systemic risk limits, systemic risk charges, cap and trade

JEL Classification: G01, G28

Suggested Citation

Brunnermeier, Markus Konrad and Cheridito, Patrick, Measuring and Allocating Systemic Risk (April 1, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2372472 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2372472

Markus Konrad Brunnermeier

Princeton University - Department of Economics ( email )

Bendheim Center for Finance
Princeton, NJ
United States
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Patrick Cheridito (Contact Author)

ETH Zurich ( email )

Department of Mathematics
8092 Zurich
Switzerland

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