Author : Daron Acemoglu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Book Synopsis Systemic Risk in Endogenous Financial Networks by : Daron Acemoglu
Download or read book Systemic Risk in Endogenous Financial Networks written by Daron Acemoglu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We provide a framework to study the formation of financial networks and investigate the interplay between banks' lending incentives and the emergence of systemic risk. We show that under natural contracting assumptions, banks fail to internalize the implications of their lending decisions for the banks with whom they are not directly contracting, thus establishing the presence of a financial network externality in the process of network formation. We then illustrate how the presence of this externality can function as a channel for the emergence of systemic risk. In particular, we show that (i) banks may "overlend" in equilibrium, creating channels over which idiosyncratic shocks can translate into systemic crises via financial contagion; and (ii) they may not spread their lending sufficiently among the set of potential borrowers, creating insufficiently connected financial networks that are excessively prone to contagious defaults. Finally, we show that banks' private incentives may lead to the formation of financial networks that are overly susceptible to systemic meltdowns with some small probability.