TY  - BOOK
AU  - López-Espinosa,Germán
AU  - Moreno,Antonio
AU  - Rubia,Antonio
AU  - Valderrama,Laura
TI  - Systemic Risk and Asymmetric Responses in the Financial Industry
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1475504349 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Bond
KW  - imf
KW  - Downside Risk
KW  - Financial Institutions
KW  - Financial System
KW  - Probability
KW  - Statistics
KW  - United States
N2  - To date, an operational measure of systemic risk capturing non-linear tail comovement between system-wide and individual bank returns has not yet been developed. This paper proposes an extension of the so-called CoVaR measure that captures the asymmetric response of the banking system to positive and negative shocks to the market-valued balance sheets of individual banks. For the median of our sample of U.S. banks, the relative impact on the system of a fall in individual market value is sevenfold that of an increase. Moreover, the downward bias in systemic risk from ignoring this asymmetric pattern increases with bank size. The conditional tail comovement between the banking system and a top decile bank which is losing market value is 5.4 larger than the unconditional tail comovement versus only 2.2 for banks in the bottom decile. The asymmetric model also produces much better estimates and fitting, and thus improves the capacity to monitor systemic risk. Our results suggest that ignoring asymmetries in tail interdependence may lead to a severe underestimation of systemic risk in a downward market
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