Market discipline and systemic risk

We analyze a general equilibrium model in which financial institutions generate endogenous systemic risk. Banks optimally select correlated investments and thereby expose themselves to fire-sale risk so as to sharpen their incentives. Systemic risk is therefore a natural consequence of banks’ fundam...

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Main Authors: Morrison, A, Walther, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: INFORMS 2019