We consider a situation in which general financial products such as options, CDS, and other derivatives, are traded to investigate the effect of cross-ownerships on market stability. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a clearing payment vector under the assumption of the fictitious default...

Should debtor countries support each other during sovereign debt crises? We answer this question through the lens of a two-country sovereign-default model that we calibrate to the euro-area periphery. First, we look at cross-country bailouts. We find that whenever agents anticipate their...

We consider a general tractable model for default contagion and systemic risk in a heterogeneous financial network, subject to an exogenous macroeconomic shock. We show that, under some regularity assumptions, the default cascade model could be transferred to a death process problem represented...