# Research from Stern's Volatility Institute on risk in China is featured

1 Faculty News July 28, 2014 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/07/29/chinas-banks-pose-worlds-largest-systemic-risk/) -- "The cost of propping up China’s banks in the event of a financial crisis have nearly quadrupled in the past three years to $526.2 billion, the largest of any banking system, according to the latest analysis by the [Volatility Laboratory](http://vlab.stern.nyu.edu/) at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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