Acharya, Viral V.; Pedersen, Lasse Heje; Philippon, Thomas - 2010
We present a simple model of systemic risk and show how each financial institution’s contribution to systemic risk can … be measured and priced. An institution’s contribution, denoted systemic expected shortfall (SES), is its propensity to be …-dependence. Institutions internalize their externality if they are “taxed” based on their SES. Through several examples, we demonstrate …