Global Financial Stability and Systemic Risk
Financial stability has become one of the defining challenges for policymakers, regulators, financial institutions, and markets. This book provides a comprehensive and practically grounded guide to systemic risk and macroprudential policy, bringing together economic theory, policy frameworks, analytical tools, and lessons from financial crises and periods of market disruption.
The book demonstrates how economic theory can and should inform policy decisions under conditions of uncertainty and financial stress, including by drawing on real-world examples such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the interaction between monetary, fiscal, and macroprudential policy and explains the roles played by major international and national institutions, including the G20, Financial Stability Board, IMF, World Bank, BIS, ECB, ESRB, and U.S. regulatory authorities.
The book provides practical insight into systemic risk modelling, early-warning systems, default modelling, macro-financial forecasting, stress testing, and advanced data analysis, including the growing application of machine learning and artificial intelligence. It also addresses emerging sources of financial instability, from crypto assets to climate-related financial risk, alongside evolving macroprudential regulation of banks and non-bank financial institutions.
Combining rigorous analysis with the perspective of a practitioner who has worked across central banking and international institutions, this book equips finance professionals, policymakers, regulators, researchers, and advanced students with the tools needed to assess systemic vulnerabilities and understand the policy responses shaping today’s interconnected financial system.