Demirer, Mert; Diebold, Francis X.; Liu, Laura; … - 2015
We use lasso methods to shrink, select and estimate the network linking the publicly-traded subset of the world's top … 150 banks, 2003-2014. We characterize static network connectedness using full-sample estimation and dynamic network … connectedness using rolling-window estimation. Statistically, we find that global banking connectedness is clearly linked to bank …