Förster, Daniel; Walther, Martin - In: Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital 52 (2019) 2, pp. 213-227
This paper describes a model in which a network of interbank loans leads to a severe amplification of the previously unanticipated insolvency of one bank. Banks that cannot rule out an indirect hit react by selling assets and hoarding liquidity. While this potentially lowers illiquidity risks,...