Financial fragility

Financial fragility is the vulnerability of a financial system to a financial crisis.[1] Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale define financial fragility as the degree to which "...small shocks have disproportionately large effects."[2] Roger Lagunoff and Stacey Schreft write, "In macroeconomics, the term "financial fragility" is used...to refer to a financial system's susceptibility to large-scale financial crises caused by small, routine economic shocks."[3]

  1. ^ Krugman, Paul (4 February 2011). "Another Kind of Financial Fragility". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Allen, Franklin; Douglas Gale (Dec 2004). "Financial Fragility, Liquidity, and Asset Prices". Journal of the European Economic Association. 2 (6): 1015–1048. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.207.3882. doi:10.1162/jeea.2004.2.6.1015. S2CID 7145559.
  3. ^ Lagunoff, Roger; Stacey Schreft (2001). "A Model of Financial Fragility". Journal of Economic Theory. 99 (1–2): 220–264. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.199.8934. doi:10.1006/jeth.2000.2733.