Onaga, T;
Caccioli, F;
Kobayashi, T;
(2023)
Financial fire sales as continuous-state complex contagion.
Physical Review Research
, 5
(4)
, Article 043123. 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043123.
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Abstract
Trading activities in financial systems create various channels through which systemic risk can propagate. An important contagion channel is financial fire sales, where a bank failure causes asset prices to fall due to asset liquidation, which in turn drives further bank defaults, triggering the next rounds of liquidation. This process can be considered as a complex contagion, yet it cannot be modeled using the conventional binary-state contagion models because there is a continuum of states representing asset prices. Here, we develop a threshold model of continuous-state cascades in which the states of each node are represented by real values. We show that the solution of a multistate contagion model, for which the continuous states are discretized, accurately replicates the simulated continuous state distribution as long as the number of states is moderately large. This discretization approach allows us to exploit the power of approximate master equations to trace the trajectory of the fraction of defaulted banks and obtain the distribution of asset prices that characterize the dynamics of fire sales through overlapping portfolios. We examine the accuracy of the proposed method using real data on asset-holding relationships in exchange-traded funds. Our methodology could contribute to evaluating and controlling systemic risk that would emerge in various real-world networked systems in the form of continuous-state complex contagion.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Financial fire sales as continuous-state complex contagion |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043123 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043123 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. |
| 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/10182545 |
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