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 …

This paper analyses cross-border contagion in a sample of European banks from January 1994 to January 2003. We use a … bank. We find evidence in favour of significant cross-border contagion. We also find some evidence that since the … introduction of the euro cross-border contagion may have increased. The results seem to be very robust to changes in the …

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. …

This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets … and the extent of interbank lending may underestimate the likelihood of contagion because they do not incorporate the fact …

financial system to minimize potential contagion losses. Building on ideas from combinatorial optimization tailored to … controlling contagion in case of complete information about an interbank network, we augment the model with three plausible types … contagion losses and the policy authority's ability to control them depend on the assumed fire sale mechanism and the fiscal …