Market Frictions, Interbank Linkages and Excessive Interconnections /

This paper studies banks' decision to form financial interconnections using a model of financial contagion that explicitly takes into account the crisis state of the world. This allows us to model the network formation decision as optimising behaviour of competitive banks, where they balance th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deb, Pragyan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/180
Online Access:Full text available on IMF