Monin, Phillip J. - In: Risks : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/25, pp. 1-21
We introduce a financial stress index that was developed by the Office of Financial Research (OFR FSI) and detail its … purpose, construction, interpretation, and use in financial market monitoring. The index employs a novel and flexible … Fed National Activity Index in a Granger causality analysis, suggesting that increases in financial stress help predict …