Systemic Risk of The Vietnamese Commercial Banks: A New Approach Using CoVaR and SRISK Measurements

Abstract

One of the main lessons of the global financial crisis in 2007–2009 is keeping individual financial institutions sound would be not enough for the stability of the financial system, given the increasing complexity of the banking activities and systemic risk. In this paper, the authors measure the systemic risk of 12 listed Vietnamese commercial banks from April 2008 to June 2021 based on two market risk measures, namely the CoVaR and SRISK. The use of market price in the estimation of bank systemic risk results in timely and forward-looking risk measures, which is particularly important during volatile periods. The authors also provide several policy discussions on the measurement and supervision of systemic risk in the Vietnamese banking sector.