not limited to geographical proximity, small world features, regional homophily, and a core-periphery structure …

We use lasso methods to shrink, select and estimate the network linking the publicly-traded subset of the world's top … 150 banks, 2003-2014. We characterize static network connectedness using full-sample estimation and dynamic network … connectedness using rolling-window estimation. Statistically, we find that global banking connectedness is clearly linked to bank …

countries. Concerning fundamentals, the move to a fixed exchange rate regime and an increase in real world interest rates are …

difference-in-differences estimation with banks being allocated to the treatment and control group based on the region of their …