In this paper we present systemic risk measures based on contingent claims approach, banking sector multivariate density and cluster analysis. These indicators aim to capture credit risk stress and its potential to become systemic. The proposed measures capture not only individual bank...

This paper presents the quarterly survey on Financial Stability conducted by the Central Bank of Brazil since September 2011. It presents aggregate results, which were obtained with the answers of participant financial institutions. The objective of the survey is to consolidate market...

This paper presents measures for the mitigation of systemic risk adopted in the Brazilian Payment System, and payments processed by this system are analyzed in order to identify potential sources of systemic risk. Measures for the mitigation of systemic risk within the Brazilian Payment System...

We developed an endogenous testing strategy for finding contagion within stock markets indices, Credit Default Swaps spreads and banking sector indices. We present evidence of strong contagion in specific cases and markets and show an analysis of contagion to Brazil. Our results are important...

This paper proposes a novel way to model a network of firm-bank and bank-bank interrelationships using a unique dataset for the Brazilian economy. We show that distress originating from firms can be propagated through the interbank network. Furthermore, we present evidence that the distribution...