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 …

tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in …, Italy and Spain became more interdependent after the OMT announcement, providing our only evidence of contagion. While this …