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Network Formation and Systemic Risk

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  • Selman Erol

    () (Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania)

  • Rakesh Vohra

    () (Department of Economics and Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania)

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This paper introduces a model of endogenous network formation and systemic risk. In it, agents form networks that efficiently trade-off the possibility of systemic risk with the benefits of trade. Second, fundamentally ‘safer’ economies generate higher interconnectedness, which in turn leads to higher systemic risk. Third, the structure of the network formed depends on whether the shocks to the system are believed to be correlated or independent of each other. In particular, when shocks are perfectly correlated, the network formed is a complete graph, i.e., a link between every pair of agents. This underlines the importance of specifying the shock structure before investigating a given network because a given network and shock structure could be incompatible.

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  • Selman Erol & Rakesh Vohra, 2014. "Network Formation and Systemic Risk," PIER Working Paper Archive 14-029, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
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    Keywords

    Network Formation; Systemic Risk; Contagion; Rationalizability; Core;
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    JEL classification:

    • D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises

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