Risk topography : systemic risk and macro modeling / edited by Markus Brunnermeier and Arvind Krishnamurthy.

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The recent financial crisis and the difficulty of using mainstream macroeconomic models to accurately monitor and assess systemic risk have stimulated new analyses of how we measure economic activity and the development of more sophisticated models in which the financial sector plays a greater role. Markus Brunnermeier and Arvind Krishnamurthy have assembled contributions from leading academic researchers, central bankers, and other financial-market experts to explore the possibilities for advancing macroeconomic modeling in order to achieve more accurate economic measurement. Essays in this volume focus on the development of models capable of highlighting the vulnerabilities that leave the economy susceptible to adverse feedback loops and liquidity spirals. While these types of vulnerabilities have often been identified, they have not been consistently measured. In a financial world of increasing complexity and uncertainty, this volume is an invaluable resource for policymakers working to improve current measurement systems and for academics concerned with conceptualizing effective measurement.

Introduction / Markus Brunnermeier and Arvind Krishnamurthy -- Measurement and disclosure. Challenges in identifying and measuring systemic risk / Lars Peter Hansen ; Regulating systemic risk through transparency: tradeoffs in making data public / Augustin Landier and David Thesmar -- Risk exposures. Systemic risk exposures: a 10-by-10-by-10 approach / Darrell Duffie ; Remapping the flow of funds / Juliane Begenau, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider ; Measuring margin / Robert L. Mcdonald ; A transparency standard for derivatives / Viral V Acharya -- Liquidity and leverage. Liquidity mismatch measurement / Markus Brunnermeier, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Gary Gorton ; Monitoring leverage / John Geanakoplos and Lasse Heje Pedersen -- Financial intermediation and credit. Repo and securities lending / Tobias Adrian, Brian Begalle, Adam Copeland and Antoine Martin ; Improving our ability to monitor bank lending / William F. Bassett, Simon Gilchrist, Gretchen C. Weinbach, and Egon Zakrajek ; The case for a credit registry / Atif Mian -- Household sector. Monitoring the financial condition and expenditures of households / Robert E. Hall ; Leads on macroeconomic risks to and from the household sector / Jonathan A. Parker ; Detecting "bad" leverage / Amir Sufi -- Corporate sector. A macroeconomist's wish list of financial data / V.V. Chari -- International sector. Systemic risks in global banking: what available data can tell us and what more data are needed / Eugenio Cerutti, Stijn Claessens, and Patrick McGuire.

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