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Title: A Leverage-Based Measure of Financial Stability

Author(s): Tobias Adrian, Karol Jan Borowiecki and Alexander Tepper

Publication Date: February 2018

Keyword(s): financial crisis, Financial Stability, leverage, Long-Term Capital Management, LTCM, minimum market size for stability, MinMaSS and stability ratio

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: The size and the leverage of financial market investors and the elasticity of demand of unlevered investors define MinMaSS, the smallest market size that can support a given degree of leverage. The financial system's potential for financial crises can be measured by the stability ratio, the fraction of total market size to MinMaSS. We use that financial stability metric to gauge the buildup of vulnerability in the run-up to the 1998 Long-Term Capital Management crisis and argue that policymakers could have detected the potential for the crisis.

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Adrian, T, Borowiecki, K and Tepper, A. 2018. 'A Leverage-Based Measure of Financial Stability'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=12676