Optimal bailout strategies resulting from the drift controlled supercooled Stefan problem
We consider the problem faced by a central bank which bails out distressed financial institutions that pose systemic risk to the banking sector. In a structural default model with mutual obligations, the central agent seeks to inject a minimum amount of cash in order to limit defaults to a given pro...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Sprog: | English |
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Springer
2023
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| Summary: | We consider the problem faced by a central bank which bails out distressed financial institutions that pose systemic risk to the banking sector. In a structural default model with mutual obligations, the central agent seeks to inject a minimum amount of cash in order to limit defaults to a given proportion of entities. We prove that the value of the central agent’s control problem converges as the number of defaultable institutions goes to infinity, and that it satisfies a drift controlled version of the supercooled Stefan problem. We compute optimal strategies in feedback form by solving numerically a regularized version of the corresponding mean field control problem using a policy gradient method. Our simulations show that the central agent’s optimal strategy is to subsidise banks whose equity values lie in a non-trivial time-dependent region. |
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