contagion and aggregate losses in a financial system. Systemic instability is explored in a financial network comprising three …

influence of the network topology on contagion in financial networks. This paper therefore compares contagion in Barabási … deposits. Contagion effects from the default of a large bank are studied in different network topologies. The results indicate … that contagion is more severe in random and scale-free networks than in small-world networks. This situation changes when …

contagion only occurs if the correlation between the portfolios of banks is high enough. Without deposit insurance contagious … bank runs can impose such great losses on banks, that banks choose less correlated portfolios to avoid contagion altogether …

of last resort and other safety net issues. We devote particular emphasis to the analysis of systemic risk and contagion …

related payment and settlement systems. At the heart of systemic risk are contagion effects, various forms of external effects … rigorous models of bank and payment system contagion have now been developed, although a general theoretical paradigm is still … missing. Direct econometric tests of bank contagion effects seem to be mainly limited to the United States. Empirical studies …

payment system designs. We assess the exposures and the contagion by a counterfactual analysis assuming that payments …

This paper tests financial contagion due to interbank linkages. For identification we exploit an idiosyncratic, sudden … contagion is higher for banks with weaker fundamentals. Third, interbank linkages among surviving banks further propagate the … linkages act as an important channel of contagion and hold important policy implications. …

transmission from or to sovereigns and banks are aggregated as a Contagion index (CI). This index is disentangled into four …) vice-versa. We highlight the impact of policy-related events along the different components of the contagion index. The …