Risk spillovers and interconnectedness between systemically important institutions

Ranking Systemically Important Financial Institutions

We propose a simple network–based methodology for ranking systemically important financial institutions. We view the risks of firms –including both the financial sector and the real economy– as a network with nodes representing the volatility shocks. The metric for the connections of the nodes is the correlation between these shocks. Daily dynamic centrality measures allow us to rank firms in t...

Identifying Global Systemically Important Financial Institutions

A key element of the G20 response to the global financial crisis has been to develop policies to address the ‘too-big-to-fail’ problem posed by systemically important financial institutions (SiFis). the first step is to identify such entities. to that end, there has been extensive work undertaken in recent years, especially at the global level in view of the cross-country impact of large intern...

The Intrafirm Complexity of Systemically Important Financial Institutions

In November, 2011, the Financial Stability Board, in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund, published a list of 29 “systemically important financial institutions” (SIFIs). This designation reflects a concern that the failure of any one of them could have dramatic negative consequences for the global economy and is based on “their size, complexity, and systemic interconnectedness”. ...

Syndication, Interconnectedness, and Systemic Risk∗

This paper studies the interconnectedness of banks in the syndicated loan market as a major source of systemic risk. We develop a set of novel measures to describe the "distance" (similarity) between two banks’syndicated loan portfolios and find that such distance explains how banks are interconnected in this market. As lead arrangers choose to work with those that have a similar focus in terms...

The PRA’s approach to identifying other systemically important institutions (O-SIIs)