Systemic risk and macroeconomic fat tails
(2017)
Book Chapter
Bougheas, S., Harvey, D., & Kirman, A. (2018). Systemic risk and macroeconomic fat tails. In P. Commendatore, I. Kubin, S. Bougheas, A. Kirman, M. Kopel, & G. I. Bischi (Eds.), The economy as a complex spatial system (119-136). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65627-4_6
We propose a mechanism for shock amplification that potentially can account for fat tails in the distribution of the growth rate of national output. We argue that extreme macroeconomic events, such as the Great Depression and the Great Recession, wer... Read More about Systemic risk and macroeconomic fat tails.