Asset Commonality and Systemic Risk Among Large Banks in the United States

by U.S. Department of the Treasury

In this paper, we present a compellingly simple yet innovative approach to capturing the buildup of systemic risk associated with commonalities in banks' asset holdings. We draw on a growing strand of theoretical literature that studies the systemic externalities of banks' balance sheet asset side allocations. By applying data aggregation and clustering techniques to publically available balance sheet data, we uncover interesting patterns in the asset...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506128505
• ISBN13: 9781506128504
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"