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] Interconnectedness among financial institutions (banks) can play a major role in precipitating systemic financial crises. [2] Lack of … liquidating risky loans. Interconnectedness among their asset portfolios can obscure information about these portfolios, causing … interconnectedness. The optimal degree of regulation, which may depend on depositors’ degree of risk aversion, may not eliminate …
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We look at the effect of capital rules on a banking system that is connected through correlated credit exposures and interbank lending. The rules, which combine individual bank characteristics and interconnectivity measures of interbank lending, are to minimize a measure of system-wide losses....
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contrast, a bank’s interconnectedness is regarded as an indicator of its exposure to systemic risk. International interbank …
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/ranking systemically important institutions and assessing interconnectedness. We develop a test of significance of Delta CoVaR that allows …
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Systemic risk among the network of international banking groups arises when financial stress threatens to crisscross many national boundaries and expose imperfect international coordination. To assess this risk, we consider three decades of data on the cross-border interbank market. We use...
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output shocks, i.e. consumption risk sharing. By contrast, banks' international interconnectedness spread the U.S. subprime … impact of banks' links to the non-bank sector in the rest-of-the-world on consumption risk sharing is negligible while strong …
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This paper reviews tools used to identify and measure interconnectedness and raises the awareness of policymakers as to … potential cross-sectional implications of prudential tools aimed at controlling interconnectedness. The paper examines two sets … of tools—developed at the IMF and externally—to identify the implications of interconnectedness in systemic risk and how …
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Financial institutions’ interconnectedness is a key component of systemic risk. However there is still no consensus on … strategies to measure interconnectedness: closeness of exposure distributions, identification of core-periphery structure and …
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Banks create excessive systemic risk through leverage and maturity mismatch, as financial constraints introduce welfare-reducing pecuniary externalities.  Macroprudential regulators can achieve efficiency with simple linear constraints on banks' balance sheets, which require less information...
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