Market Frictions, Interbank Linkages and Excessive Interconnections

Author/Editor:

Pragyan Deb

Publication Date:

August 26, 2016

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper studies banks' decision to form financial interconnections using a model of financial contagion that explicitly takes into account the crisis state of the world. This allows us to model the network formation decision as optimising behaviour of competitive banks, where they balance the benefits of forming interbank linkages against the cost of contagion. We use this framework to study various market frictions that can result in excessive interconnectedness that was seen during the crisis. In this paper, we focus on two channels that arise from regulatory intervention—deposit insurance and the too big to fail problem.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2016/180

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

August 26, 2016

ISBN/ISSN:

9781475530292/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA2016180

Pages:

41

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