The Information in Systemic Risk Rankings

34 Pages Posted: 21 Jan 2016

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Federico Nucera

Bank of Italy

Bernd Schwaab

European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Research

Siem Jan Koopman

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - School of Business and Economics; Tinbergen Institute; Aarhus University - CREATES

Andre Lucas

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Tinbergen Institute

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Date Written: January 18, 2016

Abstract

We propose to pool alternative systemic risk rankings for financial institutions using the method of principal components. The resulting overall ranking is less affected by estimation uncertainty and model risk. We apply our methodology to disentangle the common signal and the idiosyncratic components from a selection of key systemic risk rankings that have been proposed recently. We use a sample of 113 listed financial sector firms in the European Union over the period 2002-2013. The implied ranking from the principal components is less volatile than most individual risk rankings and leads to less turnover among the top ranked institutions. We also find that price-based rankings and fundamentals-based rankings deviated substantially and for a prolonged time in the period leading up to the financial crisis. We test the adequacy of our newly pooled systemic risk ranking by relating it to credit default swap premia.

Keywords: systemic risk contribution, risk rankings, forecast combination, financial regulation, banking supervision

JEL Classification: G20, G21

Suggested Citation

Nucera, Federico and Schwaab, Bernd and Koopman, Siem Jan and Lucas, Andre, The Information in Systemic Risk Rankings (January 18, 2016). ECB Working Paper No. 1875, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2717325 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2717325

Bernd Schwaab

European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate General Research ( email )

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Siem Jan Koopman

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - School of Business and Economics ( email )

De Boelelaan 1105
Amsterdam, 1081 HV
Netherlands
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Tinbergen Institute ( email )

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Netherlands

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Aarhus University - CREATES ( email )

School of Economics and Management
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DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

Andre Lucas

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ( email )

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Amsterdam, 1081 HV
Netherlands
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HOME PAGE: http://personal.vu.nl/a.lucas

Tinbergen Institute

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Amsterdam, 1018 WB
Netherlands

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