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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Market procyclicality and systemic risk
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Stefano Battiston
  • Paolo Tasca
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Quantitative Finance
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1469-7688
Volume 16
Number 8
Page Range 1219 - 1235
Date 2016
Abstract Text We develop a model that captures, at the same time, the temporal dynamics of single-firm credit risk and the contagion across banks via a network of obligations and common assets. In particular, we enrich the continuous-time modelling approach of default by accounting explicitly for the procyclical loop between asset prices and leverage. Contagion can spread well before any default occurs, through the value of the obligations held by counterparties. Moreover, the extent of procyclicality effects depends explicitly on the structure of both the interbank network and the asset bank network. We analyse the model in a simplified scenario of a densely connected core of banks and we carry out a systematic investigation of how procyclicality emerges from the multiplicative interplay of market illiquidity and tightness of capital requirements.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1080/14697688.2015.1123817
Other Identification Number merlin-id:13911
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