Being active in both the insurance sector and the banking sector, financial conglomerates intrinsically increase the interconnections between the banking sector and the insurance sector. We address two main concerns about financial conglomerates using a unique database on bilateral exposures...

Abstract Financial institutions’ interconnectedness is a key component of systemic risk. However there is still no consensus on its measurement. Using a unique database of network of exposures of French financial institutions, we compare three strategies to measure interconnectedness:...