Diversity Among Banks May Increase Systemic Risk

Diversification in Financial Networks May Increase Systemic Risk

It has been pointed out in the macroeconomics and financial risk literature that risk-sharing by diversification in a financial network may increase the systemic risk. This means roughly that while individual agents in the network, for example banks, perceive their risk of default or insolvency decrease as a result of cooperation, the overall risk, that is, the risk that several agents may defa...

Systemic Decision Making for Liquidity Risk Management in Banks

The outbreak of the recent financial crisis reveals significant problems in current bank practices in conventional liquidity risk management. To avoid catastrophic consequences, a holistic view, which captures the dynamic interactions between liquidity and other financial variables, should be taken to help banks make business decisions. However, few studies in the literature have addressed this...

Systemic Risk Evaluation of Banks and financial institutions applying Markov clustering method and centrality measures of risk

Systemic risk is the risk beared by an economic system because of a special organization. This means that a liquidity problem or a financial crisis in one company could trigger a chain of reactions that puts the whole market into trouble. This kind of risk was underestimated until 2008 financial crisis. Now federal regulations exist for controlling this risk of financial institutions. Among div...

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