When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, one way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If … asset sales occur at depressed prices, then one bank's sales may impact other banks with common exposures, resulting in … explains how the distribution of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank …

This chapter develops a unified framework for the study of how network interactions can function as a mechanism for … small, we provide a fairly complete characterization of the structure of equilibrium, clarifying the role of network … literature on the role of network linkages in fostering systemic risk …

risk. These connections lead to two different network structures. In a clustered network groups of financial institutions … hold identical portfolios and default together. In an unclustered network defaults are more dispersed. With long term … finance welfare is the same in both networks. In contrast, when short term finance is used, the network structure matters …

to individual banks in the Merton tradition (1974) as a combination put option for the deep tail of bank losses and a … knock-in stop-loss call on bank assets. This model expresses the value of taxpayer loss exposure from a string of defaults … the face value of the debt of the entire sector. We conceive of an individual bank's systemic risk as its contribution to …

exposure in bad times. We apply this idea to bank risk measurement. We find that banks with high accounting return on equity … triggered by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. ROE predicts systematic tail risk much better than conventional measures based …

financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …

in three steps: First, using data from liquidity auctions of the European Central Bank, we estimate the funding costs in … a given week for each individual bank. In the second step, we apply the adaptive elastic net (a LASSO type estimator) to … this panel to estimate the financial network. Finally, using the estimated network we propose new measures of the …

We provide a framework for studying the relationship between the financial network architecture and the likelihood of … socially inefficient due to the presence of a network externality: even though banks take the effects of their lending, risk … rest of the network …

Financial network structure is an important determinant of systemic risk. This paper examines how the U.S. interbank … network evolved over a long and important period that included two key events: the founding of the Federal Reserve and the …, initially reducing overall network concentration. The network became even more focused on Fed cities during the Depression, as …