This paper examines the relationship between adverse shocks to the banking system and their effect on the general economy in Europe. This topic was brought to the spotlight during the 2007-2009 financial and economic crisis, when the relatively healthy, at that time, European economy was...

Verlagsinfo: Die Teilnehmer der nationalen europäischen Märkte sehen sich im Zuge des seit geraumer Zeit andauernden und noch anhaltenden Wandlungsprozesses mit neuen Rahmenbedingungen konfrontiert. Der Wandel kann mit Schlagwörtern wie Technologisierung, Globalisierung,...

Large and growing international financial linkages between East and West have altered the nature of the stability risks faced by European banking systems, increasing susceptibility to contagion. This paper aims to identify potential risks of cross-border contagion using a sample of large Western...

Measuring interconnectedness in a banking system and identifying the transmission channels of systemic risk is a main issue for the analysis of financial stability. We develop a methodology based on conditional tail risk networks to assess the channels of transmission in a banking system, and to...