An accessible and detailed overview of the risks posed by financial institutionsUnderstanding Systemic Risk in Global Financial Markets offers an accessible yet detailed overview of the risks to financial stability posed by financial institutions designated as systemically important. The types of firms covered are primarily systemically important banks, non-banks, and financial market utilities such as central counterparties. Written by Aron Gottesman and Michael Leibrock, experts on the topic of systemic risk, this vital resource puts the spotlight on coherency, practitioner relevance, conceptual explanations, and practical exposition.
Step by step, the authors explore the specific regulations enacted before and after the credit crisis of 2007-2009 to promote financial stability. The text also examines the criteria used by financial regulators to designate firms as systemically important. The quantitative and qualitative methods to measure the ongoing risks posed by systemically important financial institutions are surveyed.
- A review of the regulations that identify systemically important financial institutions
- The tools to use to detect early warning indications of default
- A review of historical systemic events their common causes
- Techniques to measure interconnectedness
- Approaches for ranking the order the institutions which pose the greatest degree of default risk to the industry
Understanding Systemic Risk in Global Financial Markets offers a must-have guide to the fundamentals of systemic risk and the key critical policies that work to reduce systemic risk and promoting financial stability.
- ISBN10 1119348501
- ISBN13 9781119348504
- Publish Date 11 August 2017 (first published 7 June 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English