We develop an agent-based model of traditional banks and asset managers to investigate the contagion risk related to fire sales and balance sheet interactions. We take a structural approach to the price formation in fire sales as in Bluhm et al. (2014) and introduce a market clearing mechanism...

The agent-based model of Hałaj (2018) is calibrated to data from granular liquidity reporting by the largest banks in Canada. The model describes propagation and amplification of funding shocks between banks interacting on the interbank market. Some stylized stress-test scenarios of funding...

We introduce tools to capture the dynamics of three different pathways, in which the synchronization of human decision-making could lead to turbulent periods and contagion phenomena in financial markets. The first pathway is caused when stock market indices, seen as a set of coupled...