In this contribution we carried out a wide simulation analysis in order to study the contagion mechanism induced in a portfolio of bank loans by the presence of business relationships among the positions. To this aim we jointly apply a structural model based on a factor approach extended in...

This contribution presents a network of interdependent firms in which the spatial diffusion of the business relations is described by an entropy spatial interaction model. This network is used in a credit risk model in order to take into account the counterparty risk and describe the resulting...

This contribution studies the effects of credit contagion on the credit risk of a portfolio of bank loans. To this aim we introduce a model that takes into account the counterparty risk in a network of interdependent firms that describes the presence of business relations among different firms....