Family swept: liquidity-cascade / fire-sale / feedback-loop / systemic-fragility ยท campaign regime-invariant-orthogonality ยท append-only
The fragility axis. This iteration harvests the measures that quantify how a market becomes cascade-prone: tail-spillover / contagion (ฮCoVaR, MES, LRMES, CATFIN), connectedness networks (DieboldโYilmaz, BarunรญkโKลehlรญk frequency spillover, Billio et al. Granger network), coupling / PCA-fragility (Absorption Ratio, RMT market-mode eigenvalue, Turbulence Index, and its 2020 nonlinear autoencoder generalization), correlation-dynamics crowding (DCC-GARCH, DECO, Correlation Surprise, CISS), herding (CSAD/CSSD), and the two liquidity-spiral proxies (commonality-in-liquidity, liquidity-adjusted VaR).
Spot-legality was the load-bearing screen. Almost all of these run on a panel of spot returns or on our existing spot illiquidity/spread estimators โ no derivatives needed. Two are catalogued but out-of-scope: SRISK (needs equity/debt leverage โ no clean token analogue) and the BrunnermeierโPedersen funding/market spiral (a model whose funding leg is off-limits). Their return-only shadows โ LRMES and commonality-in-liquidity โ are kept in-scope. Billio et al. is spot-legal despite the word "network": its graph is estimated from returns, not from exogenous holdings.
| # | Name | Family | Measures | Cascade / fragility mapping | Spot? | Param | Stable-ID | FOSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H13 | ฮCoVaR | systemic-risk / tail | system VaR conditional on symbol i at its VaR, minus median state (quantile reg) | directional tail-spillover โ contagion | spot | PP | Adrian & Brunnermeier 2016, AER โ DOI 10.1257/aer.20120555 | VER frds (Py); TimoDimi/SystemicRisk (R); SystemicR (R) |
| H14 | MES | systemic-risk / tail | mean return of i on worst q% market days | crowding / co-crash exposure | spot | PP | Acharya, Pedersen, Philippon, Richardson 2017, RFS โ DOI 10.1093/rfs/hhw088 | VER frds (Py); Belluzzo (MATLAB) |
| H15 | LRMES | systemic-risk / tail | GARCH-DCC-simulated long-run MES (SRISK return-only leg) | fire-sale / co-crash contribution, no leverage wrapper | spot | PP | Brownlees & Engle 2017, RFS โ DOI 10.1093/rfs/hhw060 ยท parent H14 | VER frds (Py) LRMES |
| H16 | SRISK | systemic-risk | expected capital shortfall = f(size, leverage, LRMES) | fire-sale amplification / capital-shortfall buildup | OOS needs-fundamentals | MN | Brownlees & Engle 2017, RFS โ DOI 10.1093/rfs/hhw060 | frds; Belluzzo โ flagged, not usable |
| H17 | DieboldโYilmaz connectedness | connectedness/spillover | total & directional shares of generalized H-step FEVD across a VAR | return-derived contagion network; rises in crises | spot | PP | DY 2012, IJF โ DOI 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2011.02.006; 2014, J.Econometrics โ DOI 10.1016/j.jeconom.2014.04.012 | VER frequencyConnectedness (R, GPL-2); ConnectednessApproach (R, GPL-3) |
| H18 | BarunรญkโKลehlรญk freq. connectedness | connectedness/spillover | spectral decomposition of DY into short/med/long-run bands | transient vs persistent (structural) contagion | spot | PP | Barunรญk & Kลehlรญk 2018, J.Fin.Econometrics โ DOI 10.1093/jjfinec/nby001 ยท parent H17 | VER tomaskrehlik/frequencyConnectedness (R, GPL-2) |
| H19 | Absorption Ratio | market-fragility / PCA | fraction of return variance absorbed by top-K covariance eigenvectors | tight coupling โ fragility; ฮAR spikes precede drawdowns | spot | DIM | Kritzman, Li, Page, Rigobon 2011, JPM โ DOI 10.3905/jpm.2011.37.4.112 | VER frds (Py); Belluzzo (MATLAB) |
| H20 | Turbulence Index (Mahalanobis) | market-fragility | statistical unusualness of a return vector vs historical mean/cov | fragility/stress flag; co-moves with cascades | spot | PF | Kritzman & Li 2010, FAJ โ DOI 10.2469/faj.v66.n5.3 | VER frds (Py); Belluzzo (MATLAB) |
| H21 | Correlation Surprise | co-movement / correlation | turbulence split into magnitude vs correlation-conditioned surprise | unusual co-movement structure = crowding onset | spot | DIM | Kinlaw & Turkington 2013, J.Asset Mgmt โ DOI 10.1057/jam.2013.27 | UNV Belluzzo (MATLAB) |
| H22 | DCC-GARCH | correlation-dynamics | time-varying conditional correlation matrix (correlation-targeting) | rising dynamic correlation = diversification breakdown / crowding | spot | PP | Engle 2002, JBES โ DOI 10.1198/073500102288618487 | VER alexiosg/rmgarch (R, GPL-3); frds (Py) |
| H23 | DECO (dynamic equicorrelation) | correlation-dynamics | single time-varying average correlation across all pairs | scalar "market coupling" index; spikes = systemic co-movement | spot | PP | Engle & Kelly 2012, JBES โ DOI 10.1080/07350015.2011.652048 ยท parent H22 | VER alexiosg/rmgarch (R, GPL-3) |
| H24 | RMT largest-eigenvalue / market-mode | market-fragility / PCA | empirical correlation eigenvalues vs MarchenkoโPastur null; ฮป_max = collective mode | deviation from RMT null = genuine coupling โ fragility; ฮป_max grows pre-crisis | spot | PF | Laloux, Cizeau, Bouchaud, Potters 1999, PRL 83:1467 โ DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1467 | UNV numpy / pyRMT |
| H25 | BillioโGetmanskyโLoโPelizzon | connectedness / fragility | PCA cumulative-variance + Granger-causality network from returns | return-based causal-network density + PCA absorption rise pre-crisis | spot | PP | Billio, Getmansky, Lo, Pelizzon 2012, JFE โ DOI 10.1016/j.jfineco.2011.12.010 | UNV SystemicR (R); Belluzzo (MATLAB) |
| H26 | CATFIN | systemic-risk / tail | cross-sectional catastrophic VaR (avg of GPD/GEV/non-parametric tail VaR) | aggregate cross-section tail-risk/fragility; leads downturns | spot | PP | Allen, Bali, Tang 2012, RFS โ DOI 10.1093/rfs/hhs094 | UNV Belluzzo (MATLAB) |
| H27 | Critical Slowing Down / early-warning signals | market-fragility (tipping-point) | rising rolling variance + lag-1 autocorrelation (+skew) near a tipping point | fragility / loss-of-resilience before regime shift or crash | spot | PP | Scheffer et al. 2009, Nature โ DOI 10.1038/nature08227; Dakos et al. 2012, PLoS ONE โ DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0041010 | VER earlywarnings (R, BSD-2); EWSmethods (R) |
| H28 | Commonality in liquidity | liquidity-spiral (spot shadow) | co-movement of individual illiquidity with market-wide illiquidity | spot-legal shadow of the fire-sale illiquidity spiral; systemic-liquidity risk | spot | PP | Chordia, Roll, Subrahmanyam 2000, JFE โ DOI 10.1016/S0304-405X(00)00057-3; Karolyi, Lee, van Dijk 2012, JFE โ DOI 10.1016/j.jfineco.2011.12.008 | UNV panel regression |
| H29 | Liquidity-adjusted VaR (LVaR) | liquidity-spiral | VaR augmented by the bid-ask-spread distribution | illiquidity add-on; spread blows out in fire-sales โ tail widens | spot | PP | Bangia, Diebold, Schuermann, Stroughair 1999, Wharton FIC WP 99-06 (DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-0791-8_1) | UNV |
| H30 | BrunnermeierโPedersen liquidity spiral | liquidity-spiral (model) | margin-spiral ร loss-spiral mutual reinforcement (theory) | canonical fire-sale / illiquidity-spiral mechanism | OOS needs funding/margin | model | Brunnermeier & Pedersen 2009, RFS โ DOI 10.1093/rfs/hhn098 | NONE (model) โ spot shadow = H28 |
| H31 | Dynamic conditional tail dependence | tail-dependence (crypto SOTA) | time-varying lower/upper tail-dependence across the crypto cross-section | "crashing together": persistent systemic core; asymmetric tail connectedness | spot | PP | "Crashing Together, Rallying Apart" โ arXiv:2606.16840 (2026) | UNV |
| H32 | Autoencoder Reconstruction Ratio | market-fragility / PCA (SOTA) | nonlinear generalization of the Absorption Ratio via autoencoder reconstruction error | co-movement/coupling shifts a linear PCA absorption ratio misses | spot | PP | "Detecting Changes in Asset Co-Movementโฆ" โ arXiv:2002.02008 ยท parent H19 | UNV |
| H33 | Herding โ CSAD / CSSD | co-movement / crowding | cross-sectional dispersion of returns vs the market return | dispersion collapses when the crowd herds โ directional-crowding flag | spot | PF | Chang, Cheng, Khorana 2000, JBF โ DOI 10.1016/S0378-4266(99)00096-5; Christie & Huang 1995, FAJ โ DOI 10.2469/faj.v51.n4.1918 | UNV OLS |
| H34 | CISS (Composite Indicator of Systemic Stress) | systemic-risk / correlation | portfolio-theoretic aggregation of segment stress weighted by time-varying cross-correlation | weights simultaneous cross-segment stress = systemic; correlation-aware fragility | spot adaptable | PP | Hollรณ, Kremer, Lo Duca 2012, ECB WP 1426 (SSRN 2018792) | UNV method only |
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