Detering, Nils; Meyer-Brandis, Thilo; Panagiotou, … - In: Mathematics and Financial Economics 15 (2020) 1, pp. 59-101
Fire sales and default contagion are two of the main drivers of systemic risk in financial networks. While default contagion spreads via direct balance sheet exposures between institutions, fire sales describe iterated distressed selling of assets and their associated decline in price which...