This paper uses a toy financial system to study systemic risk in scale-free interbank networks. Networks are produced … for interbank networks are designed in a way to reproduce the frequently documented features of disassortative behavior …

: (1) by increasing the number of marriages; (2) by triggering fertility contagion: a woman, whether involved in a …

contagion, and show that the presence of critical edges prevents it. We also find that networks organized as dense clusters … seed group, imitative learning results in the overall adoption of cooperation — efficient contagion. Key to this result … seed group, the easier it is for efficient contagion to take place. We highlight the importance of cycles for efficient …

contagion models based on homogeneous and non-hierarchical networks. Also, results provide further evidence about financial … with evidence from other interbank markets and other financial networks regarding the flaws of traditional direct financial … networks’ self-organization emerging from complex adaptive financial systems. Our research contributes by (i) examining and …

contagion models based on homogeneous and non-hierarchical networks, and provide further evidence about financial networks’ self … with evidence from other interbank markets and other financial networks regarding the flaws of traditional direct financial … characterizing the actual connective structure of interbank funds networks; (ii) identifying those financial institutions that may be …

This paper uses a toy financial system to study systemic risk in scale-free interbank networks. Networks are produced … for interbank networks are designed in a way to reproduce the frequently documented features of disassortative behavior …