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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462259703321

Autore

Taleb Nassim Nicholas <1960->

Titolo

A new heuristic measure of fragility and tail risks [[electronic resource] ] : application to stress testing / / Nassim N. Taleb ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : International Monetary Fund, c2012

ISBN

1-4755-7073-2

1-4755-1497-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 p.)

Collana

IMF working paper ; ; WP/12/216

Soggetti

Heuristic

Financial crises

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Review of Concepts to Assess Fragility; A. The Current State of Stress Testing; B. A Simple Heuristic to Detect Fragility; Figures; 1. Why the Concave is Hurt by Tail Events; C. How Can the Simple Heuristic Enhance Stress Tests?; III. The Heuristic Applied to the Outcome of Stress Tests; A. Purpose for the Use of the Heuristic; 2. Illustration of the Use of the Heuristic; 3. Fragile and Antifragile Outcomes of Stress Tests; B. Case Study I: The Simple Heuristic Applied to Bank Stress Tests; Tables

1. The Heuristic Applied to the Outcome of Macroeconomic Stress Tests for the Largest U.S. BanksC. Case Study II: The Simple Heuristic Applied to Public Debt; 2. Overall Fragility of Banks; 3. Change in Net Debt Under Various Scenarios; IV. How to Apply the Simple Heuristic in IMF Stress Tests; 4. Illustration of Debt Dynamics Under Various Scenarios; 5. The Simple Heuristic as an Integral Part of Stress Test Frameworks; V. Conclusion; Appendices; I. Details on Macroeconomic Bank Stress Test; II. Details on Public Debt Stress Test; References

Sommario/riassunto

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 misleading in the presence of model error and the uncertainty attending parameters and their estimation. The heuristic can be seen as a second order stress test to detect nonlinearities in the tails that can lead to fragility, i.e., provide additional information on the robustness of stress tests.  It