This study applies a novel way of measuring, quantifying and modelling the systemic risk within the financial system. The magnitude of risk spill over effects is gauged by introducing a specific weighting scheme. This approach originally stems from spatial econometrics. The methodology allows...

The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...

Die Arbeit stellt eine erste theoretische Analyse der Wirksamkeit und möglicher Probleme einer marktbasierten Eigenkapitalregulierung in Form einer regulatorischen Nachschusspflicht dar. Hart und Zingales (2011) schlagen vor, dass Finanzinstitute zusätzliches Eigenkapital aufnehmen sollen,...

The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...

We propose an algorithm to model contagion in the interbank market via what we term the credit quality channel. In existing models on contagion via interbank credit, external shocks to banks often spread to other banks only in case of a default. In contrast, shocks are transmitted via asset...

The pattern of financial linkages is important in many areas of banking and finance. Yet bilateral linkages are often unknown, and maximum entropy serves as the leading method for estimating unobserved counterparty exposures. This paper proposes an efficient alternative that combines...

Die globale Finanzmarktkrise 2007-2009 hat gezeigt, wie stark ganze Volkswirtschaften von der Stabilität eines reibungslos funktionierenden Finanzsystems abhängen. Problematisch ist beispielsweise die Systemrelevanz einzelner Akteure, da diese im Notfall mit öffentlichen Mitteln gerettet...

Recent literature has proposed new methods for measuring the systemic risk of financial institutions based on observed stock returns. In this paper we examine the reliability and robustness of such risk measures, focusing on CoVaR, marginal expected shortfall, and option-based tail risk...