# Professor Robert Engle's joint research analyzing systemic risk to predict a financial crisis is spotlighted

1 Faculty News August 28, 2019 ![Quartz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_038218.gif?itok=JIQPnzXd)>

Excerpt from [Quartz](https://qz.com/1696273/nyus-robert-engle-uses-his-srisk-model-to-predict-financial-crises/) -- "By aggregating SRISK across a country’s economy, [Robert Engle](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-engle), a Nobel Prize winner at NYU, and Tianyue Ruan of National University of Singapore, believe they can estimate the relationship between projected capital shortfalls and the likelihood of a financial crisis. Their work shines a spotlight on the interconnected nature of the economy, reminding investors that potential danger is rarely isolated in a single country."

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