Measuring Systemic Risk in the Finance and Insurance Sectors

A significant contributing factor to the Financial Crisis of 2007–2009 was the apparent interconnectedness among hedge funds, banks, brokers, and insurance companies, which amplified shocks into systemic events. In this paper, we propose five measures of systemic risk based on statistical relatio...

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Main Authors: Billio, Monica, Getmansky, Mila, Lo, Andrew W., Pelizzon, Loriana
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66679