We develop an agent-based model of traditional banks and asset managers to investigate the contagion risk related to fire sales and balance sheet interactions. We take a structural approach to the price formation in fire sales as in Bluhm et al. (2014) and introduce a market clearing mechanism...

The agent-based model of Hałaj (2018) is calibrated to data from granular liquidity reporting by the largest banks in Canada. The model describes propagation and amplification of funding shocks between banks interacting on the interbank market. Some stylized stress-test scenarios of funding...

The great financial turmoil that started 2007 has brought bank regulation back into the political debate. There is talk about imposing new regulations on banks and other financial intermediaries. Yet, we are not convinced that it is completely understood how the existing regulation affects...