- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 4
- Systemic risk in a ...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 1. Juni 2010
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2010-033
- Schlagwort(e)
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common shocks
contagion
interbank markets
monetary policy
systemic risk
- Zusammenfsg.
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The breakdown of the interbank money markets in the face of the recent financial crisis has forced central banks and governments to take extraordinary measures to sustain financial stability. In this paper we investigate which influence central bank activity has on interbank markets. In our model, banks optimize a portfolio of risky investments and riskless excess reserves according to their risk and liquidity preferences. They are linked via interbank loans and face a stochastic supply of household deposits. We then introduce a central bank into the model and show that central bank activity enhances financial stability. We model the default of a large bank and analyse the resulting contagion effects. This is compared to a common shock that hits banks who have invested in similiar assets. Our results indicate that common shocks are not subordinate to contagion effects, but are instead the greater threat to systemic stability.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- economics
- JEL-Classification for JER
- C63 - Computational Techniques ; E52 - Monetary Policy ; E58 - Central Banks and Their Policies ; G00 - General ; G21 - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages