Systemic Risk in Europe

Robert Engle, Eric Jondeau and Michael Rockinger ()

Review of Finance, 2015, vol. 19, issue 1, 145-190

Abstract: Systemic risk may be defined as the propensity of a financial institution to be undercapitalized when the financial system as a whole is undercapitalized. In this article, we investigate the case of non-US institutions, with several factors explaining the dynamics of financial firms returns and with asynchronicity of time zones. We apply this methodology to the 196 largest European financial firms and estimate their systemic risk over the 2000–12 period. We find that, for certain countries, the cost for the taxpayer to rescue the riskiest domestic banks is so high that some banks might be considered too big to be saved.

Date: 2015
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Chapter: Systemic Risk in Europe (2014)
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