Systemic risk has been one of the most interesting issues in banking and financial literature during the last years, particularly in evaluating its effects on the stability of the whole financial system during crises. Differently from other studies which analyze systemic risk focusing on...

The recent financial turmoil has stimulated a rich debate in the banking and financial literature on the identification of the determinants of systemic risk, as well as of devices to forecast and prevent crises. In this paper, we explore the contribution of corporate variables on the systemic...