Aldasoro, Iñaki; Delli Gatti, Domenico; Faia, Ester - 2015 - This Draft: July 2015
We present a network model of the interbank market in which optimizing risk averse banks lend to each other and invest … interlinkages and fire sale externalities. The resulting network configuration exhibits a coreperiphery structure, dis …-assortative behavior and low density. Within this framework we analyze the effects of prudential policies on the stability/efficiency trade …