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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title A default system with overspilling contagion
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Delia Coculescu
  • Gabriele Visentin
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Frontiers of Mathematical Finance
Publisher AIMS Press
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 2769-6715
Volume 3
Number 1
Page Range 127 - 162
Date 2024
Abstract Text Some dynamical contagion models for default risk have been proposed in the literature, where a system (composed of individual debtors) evolves as a Markov process conditionally on the observation of its stochastic environment, with interacting intensities. The Markovian assumption necessitates that the environment evolves autonomously and is not influenced by the transitions of the system. We extend this classical literature and allow a default system to have a contagious impact on its environment. With a certain probability, the transition of a debtor to the default state has an impact on the system's environment. This in turn affects the transition intensities of the other debtors inside the system. Therefore, in our framework, contagion can either be contained within the default system (i.e., direct contagion from a counterparty to another) or spill from the default system over its environment (indirect contagion). This type of model is of interest whenever one wants to capture within a model possible impacts of the defaults of a class of debtors on the more global economy and vice versa.
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Official URL https://www.aimsciences.org/article/doi/10.3934/fmf.2024003
Digital Object Identifier 10.3934/fmf.2024003
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