This paper presents an integrated framework for assessing systemic risk. The framework models banks’ capital asset ratios as a function of future losses and credit growth using a generalized method of moments to calibrate shocks to credit quality and credit growth. The analysis is...

Some assumptions with respect to the number [N(t)]t>0 and the amount [Xi]i=1 of damages are introduced in the paper. It will be assumed that the average of the number of damages is a Poisson process, which leads to a compound Poisson process [S(t)]t>0 for the total damages.

The presence of i) stochastic trends, ii) deterministic trends, and/or iii) stochastic volatility in DSGE models may imply that the agents' objective functions attain infinite values. We say that such models do not have a valid micro foundation. The paper derives sufficient conditions which...