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Static and dynamic networks in interbank markets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2015

ETHAN COHEN-COLE
Affiliation:
Econ One Research, 2040 Bancroft Ave #200, Berkeley, CA 94708, USA (e-mail: ecohencole@econone.com)
ELEONORA PATACCHINI
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA (e-mail: ep454@cornell.edu)
YVES ZENOU
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Stockholm University and IFN, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden (e-mail: yves.zenou@ne.su.se)
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Abstract

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This paper proposes a model of network interactions in the interbank market. Our innovation is to model systemic risk in the interbank network as the propagation of incentives or strategic behavior rather than the propagation of losses after default. Transmission in our model is not based on default. Instead, we explain bank profitability based on competition incentives and the outcome of a strategic game. As competitors' lending decisions change, banks adjust their own decisions as a result: generating a “transmission” of shocks through the system. We provide a unique equilibrium characterization of a static model, and embed this model into a full dynamic model of network formation. We also determine the key bank, which is the bank that is crucial for the stability of the financial network.

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