Understanding Systemic Risk in Global Financial Markets

Understanding Systemic Risk in Global Financial Markets offers an accessible yet detailed overview of the risks to financial stability posed by financial institutions designated as systemically important. The types of firms covered are primarily systemically important banks, non-banks, and financial market utilities such as central counterparties. Written by Aron Gottesman and Michael Leibrock, experts on the topic of systemic risk, this vital resource puts the spotlight on coherency, practitioner relevance, conceptual explanations, and practical exposition.

Step by step, the authors explore the specific regulations enacted before and after the credit crisis of 2007-2009 to promote financial stability. The text also examines the criteria used by financial regulators to designate firms as systemically important. The quantitative and qualitative methods to measure the ongoing risks posed by systemically important financial institutions are surveyed.

• A review of the regulations that identify systemically important financial institutions
• The tools to use to detect early warning indications of default
• A review of historical systemic events their common causes
• Techniques to measure interconnectedness
• Approaches for ranking the order the institutions which pose the greatest degree of default risk to the industry

Understanding Systemic Risk in Global Financial Markets offers a must-have guide to the fundamentals of systemic risk and the key critical policies that work to reduce systemic risk and promoting financial stability.

ARON GOTTESMAN is Professor of Finance and the chair of the Department of Finance and Economics at the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. He is widely published in academic journals and is the author of Derivatives Essentials: An Introduction to Forwards, Futures, Options, and Swaps.

MICHAEL LEIBROCK is managing director, chief systemic risk officer, and head of Counterparty Credit Risk for The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He serves as chair of DTCC’s Model Risk Governance Committee and co-chair of the Systemic Risk Council, and is an active speaker globally on the topics of systemic and credit risk.