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Intermediation and Voluntary Exposure to Counterparty Risk

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  • Maryam Farboodi

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I study a model of the financial sector in which intermediation among debt-financed banks gives rise to an endogenous core-periphery network. Endogenous intermediation generates excessive systemic risk in the financial network. Financial institutions have incentives to capture intermediation spreads through strategic borrowing and lending decisions. By doing so, they tilt the division of surplus along an intermediation chain in their favor, while at the same time reducing aggregate surplus. The network is inefficient relative to a constrained-efficient benchmark, since banks that make risky investments “overconnect,” exposing themselves to excessive counterparty risk, while banks that mainly provide funding end up with too few connections.

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  • Maryam Farboodi, 2023. "Intermediation and Voluntary Exposure to Counterparty Risk," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 131(12), pages 3267-3309.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jpolec:doi:10.1086/725168
    DOI: 10.1086/725168
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    1. Choi, S. & Goyal, S. & Guo, F. & Moisan, F., 2024. "Experimental Evidence on the Relation Between Network Centrality and Individual Choice," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 2401, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

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