Taming the Basel Leverage Cycle

We investigate a simple dynamical model for the systemic risk caused by the use of Value-at-Risk, as mandated by Basel II. The model consists of a bank with a leverage target and an unleveraged fundamentalist investor subject to exogenous noise with clustered volatility. The parameter space has thre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Aymanns, C, Caccioli, F, Farmer, J, Tan, V
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2016