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How Likely is Contagion in Financial Networks?

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  • Paul Glasserman

    (Columbia Business School, Columbia University)

  • Peyton Young

    (Office of Financial Research)

Abstract

Interconnections among financial institutions create potential channels for contagion and amplification of shocks to the financial system. We estimate the extent to which interconnections increase expected losses, with minimal information about network topology, under a wide range of shock distributions. Expected losses from network effects are small without substantial heterogeneity in bank sizes and a high degree of reliance on interbank funding. They are also small unless shocks are magnified by some mechanism beyond simple spillover effects; these include bankruptcy costs, fire sales, and mark-to-market revaluations of assets. We illustrate the results with data on the European banking system.

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  • Paul Glasserman & Peyton Young, 2013. "How Likely is Contagion in Financial Networks?," Working Papers 13-09, Office of Financial Research, US Department of the Treasury.
    • Handle: RePEc:ofr:wpaper:13-09
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    1. Office of Financial Research (ed.), 2013. "Office of Financial Research 2013 Annual Report," Reports, Office of Financial Research, US Department of the Treasury, number 13-2.

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    Keywords

    systemic risk; contagion; financial network;
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    JEL classification:

    • D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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