Systemic Risk

The Dynamics of Modern Financial Systems

Prasanna Gai (Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Auckland)

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Oxford University Press
01 March 2018

Macroeconomics; Financial crises & disasters; Finance

Systemic Risk opens new ground in the study of financial crises. It treats the financial system as a complex adaptive system and shows how lessons from network disciplines - such as ecology, epidemiology, and statistical mechanics - shed light on our understanding of financial stability. Using tools from network theory and economics, it suggests that financial systems are robust-yet-fragile, with knife-edge properties that are greatly exacerbated by the hoarding of funds and the fire sale of assets by banks. This book studies the damaging network consequences of the failure of large inter-connected institutions, explains how key funding markets can seize up across the entire financial system, and shows how the pursuit of secured finance by banks in the wake of the global financial crisis can generate systemic risks. The insights are then used to model banking systems calibrated to data to illustrate how financial sector regulators are beginning to quantify financial system stress.

By: Prasanna Gai (Professor of Macroeconomics University of Auckland)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 244g
ISBN: 9780198820413
ISBN 10: 0198820410
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 01 March 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prasanna Gai is Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Auckland. He is a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (2016-19) and was Special Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of Canada (2010-11). Prior to his current position at Auckland, Professor Gai was Professor of Economics at the Australian National University and served as Senior Adviser at the Bank of England, responsible for directing its financial stability research. He holds a D.Phil and M.Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the Australian National University. Professor Gai has published widely on financial and monetary stability issues; his publications include Private Sector Involvement and International Financial Crises: An Analytical Approach (with Michael Chui), also published by Oxford University Press.

Reviews for Systemic Risk: The Dynamics of Modern Financial Systems

Gai provides a fresh look at these increasingly important fields... Ultimately, Gai successfully argues that a proper assessment of systemic risk and contagion requires an understanding of network dynamics. * Financial Analysts Journal *