Adrian, Tobias; Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2008
We propose a measure for systemic risk: CoVaR, the value at risk (VaR) of financial institutions conditional on other … institutions being in distress. We define an institution's (marginal) contribution to systemic risk as the difference between CoVaR … financial institutions, we quantify the extent to which characteristics such as leverage, size, and maturity mismatch predict …