word
systemic risk
sis-TEM-ik RISK
sɪˈstɛmɪk rɪskListen
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systemicrisk
Dictionary meaning
the risk that the failure of one financial institution or the collapse of a market segment will trigger a cascading breakdown across the entire financial system, affecting institutions, markets, and economies far beyond the original point of failure; distinguished from idiosyncratic risk which affects only individual entities; the central concern of macroprudential regulation and the primary motivation for emergency government interventions during the 2008 global financial crisis
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