“…Approaches similar to CCA have been used for some time by risk managers and investors for analyzing individual institutions; 11 these approaches have recently been extended to the systemic level (Gray, Merton, and Bodie, 2007). CCA has been performed on emerging markets, such as Brazil and Thailand (Gapen and others, 2004), Indonesia (Gray and Jones, 2006), and Turkey (Keller, Kunzel, and Souto, 2007). This may be the first time, as far as we know, that CCA-style analysis is attempted for advanced Europe.…”