“…Simultaneously, many research efforts are devoted to understand the role of banks or, broadly speaking, of financial institutions in the creation and in the consecutive spreading of systemic risk. Given the prominent importance of the topic and its multifaceted nature, the literature on evaluation and anticipation of systemic events is huge (see Demirgüç-Kunt and Detragiache, 1998;Kaminsky and Reinhart, 1999;Harrington, 2009;Scheffer et al, 2009;Barrell et al, 2010;Duttagupta and Cashin, 2011;Kritzman et al, 2011;Allen et al, 2012;Arnold et al, 2012;Bisias et al, 2012;Scheffer et al, 2012;Merton et al, 2013;Oet et al, 2013, among many contributions).…”