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Monitoring Systemic Risk Basedon Dynamic Thresholds

By Kasper Lund-Jensen

June 1, 2012

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Kasper Lund-Jensen. Monitoring Systemic Risk Basedon Dynamic Thresholds, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed September 27, 2024
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Summary

Successful implementation of macroprudential policy is contingent on the ability to identify and estimate systemic risk in real time. In this paper, systemic risk is defined as the conditional probability of a systemic banking crisis and this conditional probability is modeled in a fixed effect binary response model framework. The model structure is dynamic and is designed for monitoring as the systemic risk forecasts only depend on data that are available in real time. Several risk factors are identified and it is hereby shown that the level of systemic risk contains a predictable component which varies through time. Furthermore, it is shown how the systemic risk forecasts map into crisis signals and how policy thresholds are derived in this framework. Finally, in an out-of-sample exercise, it is shown that the systemic risk estimates provided reliable early warning signals ahead of the recent financial crisis for several economies.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Foreign exchange, Real effective exchange rates, Systemic crises, Systemic risk, Systemic risk assessment

Keywords: Africa, Banking sector leverage, Commercial banks, Credit-to-GDP gap, Credit-to-GDP growth, Equity price growth, Financial Stability, Global, Macroprudential Policy, Real effective exchange rates, Risk factor, Systemic crises, Systemic Risk, Systemic risk assessment, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    36

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2012/159

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2012159

  • ISBN:

    9781475504576

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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