A New Heuristic Measure of Fragility and Tail Risks : Application to Stress Testing /

This paper presents a simple heuristic measure of tail risk, which is applied to individual bank stress tests and to public debt. Stress testing can be seen as a first order test of the level of potential negative outcomes in response to tail shocks. However, the results of stress testing can be mis...

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Autor principal: Schmieder, Christian
Outros Autores: Kinda, Tidiane, Loukoianova, Elena, Taleb, Nassim
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/216
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF