In this paper we review recent advances in financial economics in relation to the measurement of systemic risk. We …

We show that the impact of government bailouts (liquidity injections) on a representative bank's risk taking depends on … the level of systematic risk of its loans portfolio. In a model where bank's output follows a geometric Brownian motion … and the government guarantees bank's liabilities, we show first that more generous bailouts may or may not induce banks to …

-over effects. Building on a simple model, this paper introduces a measure of the spill-over effects that a bank generates when it … defaults. The measure is based on an explicit criterion, the aggregate debt repayments, and is bank's specific, affected by the … bank's characteristics and links to other banks. Such measure can be useful to a regulator to determine in which banks cash …

This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …