Recent regulations in the U.S. and Europe incentivize the use of central counterparty clearing houses (CCP) to clear derivatives, arguably to create a less complex and more transparent interbank network that is less prone to financial instabilities. We construct a network model with endogenous...

This paper analyses money market developments since 2005, and examines factors that have affected money market functioning. We consider several metrics of activity in both secured and unsecured euro area money markets, and study interactions with new Basel III regulations and with central bank...

This paper is concerned with systemic risk in the interbank market. We model this market as a directed graph in which the banks represent the nodes and the liabilities between the banks represent the edges. Our work builds on the modelling paradigm of Eisenberg and Noe (2001, Management Science,...

This paper introduces a theoretical model to analyze the optimal bailout policy in an inter-connected banking system. The model intends to highlight two motivations behind providing a partial bailout to banks in distress: prevention of costly bankruptcies and prevention of financial contagion....

At the heart of the eurozone crisis lies the inability of the current monetary policy framework to avert the on-going financial disintegration and to break the vicious circle that ties up banks and governments in a death grip (liquidity ring-fencing), which does not allow policies to deal...