This paper tests how closely the three leading market-based systemic risk measures (SRM) agree with the list of global systemically important banks (G-SIB) from the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and how closely they match the categorization of G-SIBs into the five systemic risk buckets used by...

"In the years since the subprime financial crisis of 2007-2011, we have learned a number of important lessons about the crisis, and have subsequently applied appropriate legislation, such as increased capital ratios and systematic stress testing, in order to combat it. However, it would be naive...

This paper provides new evidence of herding in global equity markets. Using quantile regressions applied to daily data for 33 countries, we investigate herding during the Eurozone crisis, China's market crash in 2015-2016, and in the aftermath of the Brexit vote. We find significant evidence of...

In the years since the subprime financial crisis of 2007–2011, we have learned a number of important lessons about the crisis, and have subsequently applied appropriate legislation, such as increased capital ratios and systematic stress testing, in order to combat it. However, it would be...

The weak empirical evidence linking diversification and international equity flows calls into question the diversification paradigm at the international level and the analytical framework it implies. Using a novel measure of diversification that includes all the moments of the distribution of...