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How important are hedge funds in a crisis?

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Before the 2007?09 crisis, standard risk measurement methods substantially underestimated the threat to the financial system. One reason was that these methods didn?t account for how closely commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, and insurance companies were linked. As financial conditions worsened in one type of institution, the effects spread to others. A new method that more accurately accounts for these spillover effects suggests that hedge funds may have been central in generating systemic risk during the crisis.

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  • Reint Gropp, 2014. "How important are hedge funds in a crisis?," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
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    2. Ghulam, Yaseen & Doering, Jana, 2018. "Spillover effects among financial institutions within Germany and the United Kingdom," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 44(C), pages 49-63.
    3. Zsuzsánna Biedermann & Ágnes Orosz, 2015. "Diverging financial regulations after the crisis? A comparison of the EU’s and the United States’ responses," Financial and Economic Review, Magyar Nemzeti Bank (Central Bank of Hungary), vol. 14(1), pages 31-55.
    4. Mark D. Flood & Phillip Monin, 2016. "Form PF and Hedge Funds: Risk-measurement Precision for Option Portfolios," Working Papers 16-02, Office of Financial Research, US Department of the Treasury.

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