After the financial crisis in 2008, the world becamemore aware of the importance of the systemic risk. Within China's financial system, commercial banks have a dominant position. Therefore, the study of systemic risk of the banking industry in China has an important and real meaning. The present...

In this paper we propose a new measure for systemic risk: the Financial Risk Meter (FRM). This measure is based on the penalization parameter () of a linear quantile lasso regression. The FRM is calculated by taking the average of the penalization parameters over the 100 largest US publicly...