Measuring Systemic Risk in the Polish Banking System by Means of the Risk-Based Balance Sheets Method

• Authors: Renata Karkowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The complex connections, spillovers and feedbacks of the global financial crisis remind how important it is to improve the analysis of risk modeling. This article introduces a new framework for mitigating systemic risk by using a risk-adjusted balance sheet approach. In this regard, the analysis of individual banks in Poland shows potential risk which could threaten all the financial system. Traditional banking models do not adequately measure risk position of financial institutions and cannot be used to understand risk within and between balance sheets in the financial sector. A fundamental subject is that accounting balance sheets do not indicate risk exposures, which are forward-looking. The paper concludes new directions for measuring systemic risk by using Merton’s model. It shows how risk management tools can be applied in new ways to measure and analyze systemic risk in the Polish banking system.

Keywords

EN

systemic risk; Merton’s model; financial crisis; banking system

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 7-18

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-07-30

Contributors

author

Renata Karkowska

• University of Warsaw Faculty of Management Szturmowa 1/3, 02-678 Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10031-012-0035-4