Poledna, S;
Martínez-Jaramillo, S;
Caccioli, F;
Thurner, S;
(2020)
Quantification of systemic risk from overlapping portfolios in the financial system.
Journal of Financial Stability
10.1016/j.jfs.2020.100808.
(In press).
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Abstract
Financial markets create endogenous systemic risk, the risk that a substantial fraction of the system ceases to function and collapses. Systemic risk can propagate through different mechanisms and channels of contagion. One important form of financial contagion arises from indirect interconnections between financial institutions mediated by financial markets. This indirect interconnection occurs when financial institutions invest in common assets and is referred to as overlapping portfolios. In this work we quantify systemic risk from indirect interconnections between financial institutions. Complete information of security holdings of major Mexican financial intermediaries and the ability to uniquely identify securities in their portfolios, allows us to represent the Mexican financial system as a bipartite network of securities and financial institutions. This makes it possible to quantify systemic risk arising from overlapping portfolios. We show that focusing only on direct interbank exposures underestimates total systemic risk levels by up to 50% under the assumptions of the model. By representing the financial system as a multi-layer network of direct interbank exposures (default contagion) and indirect external exposures (overlapping portfolios) we estimate the mutual influence of different channels of contagion. The method presented here is the first quantification of systemic risk on national scales that includes overlapping portfolios
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Quantification of systemic risk from overlapping portfolios in the financial system |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jfs.2020.100808 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2020.100808 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Systemic risk, Overlapping portfolios, Financial networks, Financial regulation, Multi-layer networks |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10115932 |
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