Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks

This paper argues that the extent of financial contagion exhibits a form of phase transition: as long as the magnitude of negative shocks affecting financial institutions are sufficiently small, a more densely connected financial network (corresponding to a more diversified pattern of interbank liab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Tahbaz-Salehi, Alireza, Ozdaglar, Asuman E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100979
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