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Measuring systemic importance of financial institutions: An extreme value theory approach

In this paper, we define a financial institution's contribution to financial systemic risk as the increase in financial systemic risk conditional on the crash of the financial institution. The higher the contribution is, the more systemically important is the institution for the system. Based on relevant but different measurements of systemic risk, we propose a set of market-based measures on the systemic importance of financial institutions, each designed to capture certain aspects of systemic risk. Multivariate extreme value theory approach is used to estimate these measures. Using six big Canadian banks as the proxy for Canadian banking sector, we apply these measures to identify systemically important banks in Canadian banking sector and major risk contributors from international financial institutions to Canadian banking sector. The empirical evidence reveals that (i) the top three banks, RBC Financial Group, TD Bank Financial Group, and Scotiabank are more systemically important than other banks, although with different order from different measures, while we also find that the size of a financial institution should not be considered as a proxy of systemic importance; (ii) compared to the European and Asian banks, the crashes of U.S. banks, on average, are the most damaging to the Canadian banking sector, while the risk contribution to the Canadian banking sector from Asian banks is quite lower than that from banks in U.S. and euro area; (iii) the risk contribution to the Canadian banking sector exhibits home bias, that is, cross-country risk contribution tends to be smaller than domestic risk contribution.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Canada Working Paper ; No. 2011-19

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Financial Econometrics
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
Thema
Econometric and statistical methods
Financial Institutions
Financial stability
Financial system regulation and policies

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gravelle, Toni
Li, Fuchun
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Canada
(wo)
Ottawa
(wann)
2011

DOI
doi:10.34989/swp-2011-19
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gravelle, Toni
  • Li, Fuchun
  • Bank of Canada

Entstanden

  • 2011

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