Econometric Measures of Systemic Risk in the Finance and Insurance Sectors

Monica Billio, Mila Getmansky, Andrew W. Lo, Loriana Pelizzon

NBER Working Paper No. 16223
Issued in July 2010

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We thank Viral Acharya, Ben Branch, Mark Carey, Mathias Drehmann, Philipp Hartmann, Gaelle Lefol, Anil Kashyap, Andrei Kirilenko, Bing Liang, Bertrand Maillet, Alain Monfort, Lasse Pedersen, Raghuram Rajan, René Stulz, and seminar participants at the NBER Summer Institute Project on Market Institutions and Financial Market Risk, Columbia University, New York University, the University of Rhode Island, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Brandeis University, UMASS-Amherst, the IMF Conference on Operationalizing Systemic Risk Monitoring, Toulouse School of Economics, the CREST-INSEE Annual Conference on Econometrics of Hedge Funds, the Paris Conference on Large Portfolios, Concentration and Granularity, the BIS Conference on Systemic Risk and Financial Regulation, and the Cambridge University CFAP Conference on Networks. We also thank Lorenzo Frattarolo, Michele Costola, and Laura Liviero for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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