Why did interbank markets freeze during the crisis despite an unprecedented level of policy intervention? This paper seeks to answer that question by combining a realistic, multilayer network structure with an Agent-Based Model of the interbank market. The multilayer network consists of two...

I study the effect of heterogeneous beliefs about asset prices on the long-term behavior of financial markets. Starting from the ideas of Abreu and Brunnermeier (2003), a two-dimensional system of differential equations is developed. The first dynamic variable is the asset price growth rate. The...