Demirer, Mert; Diebold, Francis X.; Liu, Laura; … - 2015
We use lasso methods to shrink, select and estimate the network linking the publicly-traded subset of the world's top … connectedness using rolling-window estimation. Statistically, we find that global banking connectedness is clearly linked to bank … location, not bank assets. Dynamically, we find that global banking connectedness displays both secular and cyclical variation …