Designing an Expert Knowledge-based Systemic Importance Index for Financial Institutions

Number: 
669
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
D85, C63, E58, G28
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

Defining whether a financial institution is systemically important (or not) is challenging due to (i) the inevitability of combining complex importance criteria such as institutions’ size, connectedness and substitutability; (ii) the ambiguity of what an