In this paper, we develop a framework for measuring, allocating and managing systemic risk. SystRisk, our measure of total systemic risk, captures the a priori cost to society for providing tail-risk insurance to the financial system. Our allocation principle distributes the total systemic risk...

Introduction / Markus Brunnermeier and Arvind Krishnamurthy -- Measurement and disclosure. Challenges in identifying and measuring systemic risk / Lars Peter Hansen ; Regulating systemic risk through transparency: tradeoffs in making data public / Augustin Landier and David Thesmar -- Risk...

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 and the financial system’s VaR. From our...