Banking system stability
Subtitle: a cross-Atlantic perspective
By: Philipp Hartmann, Stefan Straetmans, Casper G. De Vries.
Contributors: Straetmans, Stefan.; Vries, Casper G. de.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11698; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11698.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Banks and banking -- United States.; Banks and banking -- Europe.; Risk assessment.
Description: "This paper derives indicators of the severity and structure of banking system risk from asymptotic interdependencies between banks' equity prices.  We use new tools available from multivariate extreme value theory to estimate individual banks' exposure to each other ("contagion risk") and to systematic risk.  Moreover, by applying structural break tests to those measures we study whether capital markets indicate changes in the importance of systemic risk over time.  Using data for the United States and the euro area, we can also compare banking system stability between the two largest economies in the world.  Finally, for Europe we assess the relative importance of cross-border bank spillovers as compared to domestic bank spillovers.  The results suggest, inter alia, that systemic risk in the US is higher than in the euro area, mainly as cross-border risks are still relatively mild in Europe.  On both sides of the Atlantic systemic risk has increased during the 1990s"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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