Introduction -- Macroprudential Oversight -- Macroprudential Data -- Data and Dimension Reduction -- Data-Dimension Reductions: A Comparison -- Extending the SOM -- Self-Organizing Financial Stability Map (SOFSM) -- Exploiting the SOFSM -- Decomposing Financial Crises with SOTMs -- Conclusions,...

The aim of this paper is to introduce modern mapping techniques to the finance community. Mapping techniques provide means for representing high-dimensional data on low-dimensional displays. This paper lays out a methodology called the Self-Organizing Financial Stability Map (SOFSM) based upon...