This paper tests financial contagion due to interbank linkages. For identification we exploit an idiosyncratic, sudden … contagion is higher for banks with weaker fundamentals. Third, interbank linkages among surviving banks further propagate the … linkages act as an important channel of contagion and hold important policy implications. JEL Classification: G21, G28, E58 …

related payment and settlement systems. At the heart of systemic risk are contagion effects, various forms of external effects … rigorous models of bank and payment system contagion have now been developed, although a general theoretical paradigm is still … missing. Direct econometric tests of bank contagion effects seem to be mainly limited to the United States. Empirical studies …

payment system designs. We assess the exposures and the contagion by a counterfactual analysis assuming that payments …

contagion among large EU banks. Banks’ risk is measured by the first difference of weekly distances to default and abnormal …. Further, the paper proposes a simple metric, which is used to identify contagion from one bank to another and identify …

unexplained increases in factor loadings as indicative of contagion. We find evidence of systematic contagion from US markets and … contagion from domestic equity markets to individual domestic equity portfolios, with its severity inversely related to the … quality of countries’ economic fundamentals and policies. Consequently, we reject the globalization hypothesis that links the …