Arbeitspapier

Uncertainty in an Interconnected Financial System, Contagion, and Market Freezes

This paper studies contagion and market freezes caused by uncertainty in financial network structures and provides theoretical guidance for central banks. We establish a formal model to demonstrate that, in a financial system where financial institutions are interconnected, a negative shock to an individual financial institution could spread to other institutions, causing market freezes because of creditors' uncertainty about the financial network structure. Central bank policies to alleviate market freezes and contagion, such as information policy, bailout policy and the lender of last resort policy, are examined.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Queen's Economics Department Working Paper ; No. 1308

Classification
Wirtschaft
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Subject
Interconnection
Market Freezes
Contagion
Financial Crises

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Li, Mei
Milne, Frank
Qui, Junfeng
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Queen's University, Department of Economics
(where)
Kingston (Ontario)
(when)
2013

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Li, Mei
  • Milne, Frank
  • Qui, Junfeng
  • Queen's University, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2013

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