Systemic Real and Financial Risks: Measurement, Forecasting, and Stress Testing

February 1, 2012

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Marcella Lucchetta, and Gianni De Nicolo. Systemic Real and Financial Risks: Measurement, Forecasting, and Stress Testing, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed June 19, 2025

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Summary

This paper formulates a novel modeling framework that delivers: (a) forecasts of indicators of systemic real risk and systemic financial risk based on density forecasts of indicators of real activity and financial health; (b) stress-tests as measures of the dynamics of responses of systemic risk indicators to structural shocks identified by standard macroeconomic and banking theory. Using a large number of quarterly time series of the G-7 economies in 1980Q1-2010Q2, we show that the model exhibits significant out-of sample forecasting power for tail real and financial risk realizations, and that stress testing provides useful early warnings on the build-up of real and financial vulnerabilities.

Subject: Bank credit, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Loans, Money, Stress testing, Systemic risk, Systemic risk assessment

Keywords: Bank credit, Bank credit demand shocks, Bank credit growth, Density Forecasts, Dynamic Factor Model, Estimation procedure, Forecasting power, Global, Loan rate, Loans, Quantile auto-regression, Quantile Auto-regressions, Quantile curve, Quantile estimate, Quantile projection, Risk indicator, Stress testing, Systemic risk, Systemic risk assessment, Systemic Risks, Time series, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

41
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2012/058
Stock No:

WPIEA2012058
ISBN:

9781463937768
ISSN:

1018-5941

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