In this paper, we study the determinants of the systemic importance of banks and insurers during the financial crisis. We investigate the methodology of regulators to identify global systemically important financial institutions and find that firm size is the only significant predictor of the...

A new measure of asymmetry in dependence is proposed which is based on taking the difference between the margin-free coskewness parameters of the underlying copula. The new measure and a related test are applied to both a hydrological and a financial market data sample and we show that both...