' connections may result in efficient risk transfer. But in crises, connections can facilitate contagion - as initial problems lead … reluctant to lend to each other and hoard liquidity. Potential for contagion due to interconnectedness is a key component of … systemic risk. As a first step towards understanding the mechanisms of contagion, this paper abstracts from complex indirect …

of contagion: systemic risk rankings based on market price estimates (e.g. CoVaR) are compared with the rankings obtained …

holdings of debt, equity and other financial instruments. These exposures can cause direct contagion and thereby the spread of …

possible channel of contagion from the infected region to the rest of the world. Focusing on, say, the incidence of close human … can become big and global. Much of the empirical finance literature has focused only on "direct" contagion arising from … firms' contractual obligations. Direct contagion occurs if one firm's default on its contractual obligations triggers …