This paper develops a financial network, designated the “Macro-Network”, that depicts the connections between the main financial and non-financial sectors of the economy in the various financial instruments of the euro area. The Macro-Network comprises of linkages across financial and...

We analyse the behaviour of euro area corporate sector probabilities of default under a wide range of domestic and global macro-financial shocks. Using the Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR) model and constructing a linking satellite equation for firm-level Expected Default Frequencies (EDFs)...

In a stylized and analytically tractable model of the global economy, we first calculate the Pareto improvement when a country experiencing a favourable supply side shock consumes more against expected future output and spreads the risk by selling shares. With capital inflows to finance the 'New...