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y scoring banks based on their percent contribution to the aggregate<br />

capital shortfall in the event of a financial crisis (SRISK%) (Engle 2012,<br />

Glasserman and Loudis 2015).3 Firms with a high SRISK% in a crisis are<br />

not only the biggest losers in a crisis but also are the firms that create or<br />

extend the crisis. The measure, plotted in Figure 6-vii, shows that the top<br />

four U.S. financial institutions with the highest SRISK% average less than<br />

16 percent contribution consistently from 2005 to 2016, which is well<br />

below the average percent contribution of the top four banks of France,<br />

Germany, and Switzerland over this same time period (Acharya, Engle,<br />

and Richardson 2012; Acharya et al. 2016).<br />

The Dodd-Frank Act takes many steps to try to limit the risks<br />

posed by the largest financial institutions in the United States as well as<br />

Percent<br />

28<br />

24<br />

Figure 6-vii<br />

Average SRISK of Top Four Banks, 2005–2016<br />

Switzerland<br />

Germany<br />

2016<br />

20<br />

16<br />

United Kingdom<br />

Japan<br />

France<br />

12<br />

United States<br />

8<br />

4<br />

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016<br />

Note: Data gathered for October of each year (2005-2016).<br />

Source: NYU Volatility Lab; CEA Calculations.<br />

limiting the ability of very large financial institutions to grow through<br />

acquisition. In addition, the President has proposed a financial fee on<br />

the liabilities of the largest financial institutions, which would reduce<br />

the incentive for such institutions to leverage, reducing the cost of externalities<br />

arising from financial firm default as a result of high leverage<br />

(Department of Treasury 2016).<br />

3 The Volatility lab samples 1,200 global financial firms. https://www.unige.ch/gsem/iee/<br />

files/7613/9574/8572/Solari_2012_slides.pdf.<br />

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