This paper presents a simple heuristic measure of tail risk, which is applied to individual bank stress tests and to public debt. Stress testing can be seen as a first order test of the level of potential negative outcomes in response to tail shocks. However, the results of stress testing can be...

This paper presents a simple heuristic measure of tail risk, which is applied to individual bank stress tests and to public debt. Stress testing can be seen as a first order test of the level of potential negative outcomes in response to tail shocks. However, the results of stress testing can be...

Wer Talebs Hauptwerk "Der schwarze Schwan" (BA 12/08) gelesen hat weiß, dass mit dem Untertitel "Konsequenzen aus der Krise" nicht vordergründig konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen zur Überwindung der krisenhaften Situation erwartet werden dürfen. Die Krise als Beispiel für einen "schwarzen...