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A network view on interbank market freezes

We study the liquidity allocation among European banks around the Lehman insolvency using a novel dataset of all interbank loans settled via the Eurosystem's payment system TARGET2. Following the Lehman insolvency, lenders in the overnight segment become sensitive to counterparty characteristics and banks start hoarding liquidity by shortening the maturity of their interbank lending. This aggregate change in liquidity reallocation is accompanied by a substantial structural change that can best be characterized as a shrinking of the interbank network. Such a change in the network structure is consequential: banks with higher centrality within the network have better access to liquidity and are able to charge larger intermediation spreads. Therefore, we show the existence of a sizeable interbank lending channel.

ISBN
978-3-95729-109-7
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bundesbank Discussion Paper ; No. 44/2014

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Thema
interbank loans
network topology
financial stability

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gabrieli, Silvia
Georg, Co-Pierre
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsche Bundesbank
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gabrieli, Silvia
  • Georg, Co-Pierre
  • Deutsche Bundesbank

Entstanden

  • 2014

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