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Technical Capabilities Necessary for Regulation of Systemic Financial Risk

Summary of a Workshop

Robert F. Engle, New York University

Scott T. Weidman, National Research Council

Rapporteurs

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This study was supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2010. Technical Capabilities Necessary for Regulation of Systemic Financial Risk: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12841.
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Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications

C. DAVID LEVERMORE,

University of Maryland, Chair

TANYA STYBLO BEDER,

SBCC Group

PHILIP A. BERNSTEIN,

Microsoft Corporation

PATRICIA FLATLEY BRENNAN,

University of Wisconsin-Madison

EMERY N. BROWN,

Massachusetts General Hospital

GERALD G. BROWN,

U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

RICARDO J. CABALLERO,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GUNNAR E. CARLSSON,

Stanford University

BRENDA L. DIETRICH,

IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

DEBRA ELKINS,

Allstate Insurance Company

SUSAN J. FRIEDLANDER,

University of Southern California

PETER WILCOX JONES,

Yale University

KENNETH L. JUDD,

Hoover Institution

CHARLES M. LUCAS,

Osprey Point Consulting

VIJAYAN N. NAIR,

University of Michigan

CLAUDIA M. NEUHAUSER,

University of Minnesota

J. TINSLEY ODEN,

University of Texas at Austin

DONALD G. SAARI,

University of California at Irvine

J.B. SILVERS,

Case Western Reserve University

GEORGE SUGIHARA,

University of California at San Diego

Staff

SCOTT T. WEIDMAN, Director

NEAL D. GLASSMAN, Senior Program Officer

BARBARA W. WRIGHT, Administrative Assistant

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Acknowledgments

Sincere appreciation is extended to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for sponsoring the workshop that is summarized in this report and the preparation of this document.

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

Christine Cumming, Federal Reserve Bank of New York,

Darrell Duffie, Stanford University,

Andrew Haldane, Bank of England,

Arvind Krishnamurthy, Northwestern University,

David Rowe, SunGard,

Charles Taylor, The Pew Charitable Trusts.

Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Peter Bickel of the University of California at Berkeley. Appointed by the National Research Council, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the rapporteurs and the institution.

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The financial reform plans currently under discussion in the United States recognize the need for monitoring and regulating systemic risk in the financial sector. To inform those discussions, the National Research Council held a workshop on November 3, 2009, to identify the major technical challenges to building such a capability. The workshop, summarized in this volume, addressed the following key issues as they relate to systemic risk:

  • What data and analytical tools are currently available to regulators to address this challenge?
  • What further data-collection and data-analysis capabilities are needed?
  • What specific resource needs are required to accomplish the task?
  • What are the major technical challenges associated with systemic risk regulation?
  • What are various options for building these capabilities?

Because every systemic event is unique with respect to its specific pathology—the various triggers and the propagation of effects—the workshop focused on the issues listed above for systemic risk in general rather than for any specific scenario. Thus, by design, the workshop explicitly addressed neither the causes of the current crisis nor policy options for reducing risk, and it attempted to steer clear of some policy issues altogether (such as how to allocate new supervisory responsibilities). More than 40 experts representing diverse perspectives participated in the workshop.

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