Fire-sale spillovers and systemic risk

Fernando Duarte and Thomas Eisenbach

No 645, Staff Reports from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: We reveal and track over time the factors making the financial system vulnerable to fire sales by constructing an index of aggregate vulnerability. The index starts increasing in 2004, before any other major systemic risk measure, more than doubling by 2008. The fire-sale-specific factors of delevering speed and concentration of illiquid assets account for the majority of this increase. Individual banks? contributions to aggregate vulnerability are an excellent five-year-ahead predictor of SRISK, one of the most prominent systemic risk measures. Had our estimates been available at the time, they would have been a useful early indicator of when and where vulnerabilities were building up.vulnerabilities to fire sales are equally sizable but build up slowly over time. Our measure signals buildup of systemic risk starting in the early 2000s, ahead of many other measures. Our measure also predicts low quantiles of macroeconomic outcomes above and beyond other existing measures, especially at longer horizons.

Keywords: systemic risk; concentration; leverage; linkage; fire-sale externalities; bank holding company; tri-party repo market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G01 G10 G18 G20 G21 G23 G28 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 74 pages
Date: 2013-10-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-cba, nep-cfn and nep-rmg
Note: Revised December 2019.
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