作者：Duarte, Fernando; Eisenbach, Thomas M.
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York
摘要：We identify and track over time the factors that make the financial system vulnerable to fire sales by constructing an index of aggregate vulnerability. The index starts increasing quickly in 2004, before most other major systemic risk measures, and triples by 2008. The fire-sale-specific factors of delevering speed and concentration of illiquid assets account for the majority of this increase. Individual banks' contributions to aggregate vulnerability predict other firm-specific measures of s...
