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When a company engages in systemic risk, it discounts that risk by the amount of the system the company doesn't occupy (e.g. if Goldman does something that will
by newsycaccount 18y ago
When a company engages in systemic risk, it discounts that risk by the amount of the system the company doesn't occupy (e.g. if Goldman does something that will create a 10% chance of a $100 billion dollar loss, spread evenly across the financial industry as a whole, and if Goldman only makes up 5% of the industry, Goldman will only take into consideration a 10% chance at a $5 billion loss. The other $95 billion isn't their problem and their shareholders could sue members of the board if the board allowed the company to take it into account).