Monitoring systemic risk based on dynamic thresholds /

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Author / Creator:Lund-Jensen, Kasper, author.
Imprint:[Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2012.
Description:1 online resource (36 pages) : color charts
Language:English
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/12/159
IMF working paper ; WP/12/159.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12500277
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Varying Form of Title:At head of title: Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Other authors / contributors:International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department, issuing body.
ISBN:1475504578
9781475504576
1475537255
9781475537253
9781475565461
1475565461
9781475504576
9781475537253
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed June 25, 2012).
"June 2012."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-35).
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.