Global Market Conditions and Systemic Risk /

This paper examines several key global market conditions, such as a proxy for market uncertainty and measures of interbank funding stress, to assess financial volatility and the likelihood of crisis. Using Markov regime-switching techniques, it shows that the Lehman Brothers failure was a watershed...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gonzalez-Hermosillo, Brenda
Other Authors: Hesse, Heiko
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/230
Online Access:Full text available on IMF