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Contagion In Financial Banking Systems

Megas, Cristina M. (2012) Contagion In Financial Banking Systems. Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper takes a financial network, applies a shock to the system and looks at the resulting institutions that fail. It considers the propagation of contagion through the financial network by employing various techniques. The first method calculates unique clearing payments for all the banks in the system. It also defines fundamental default and contagious failure of any financial institution and differentiates between these two important concepts.
The second method uses mean-field approximations to make all the banks in the system identical. It reduces an institution's external assets so that it defaults and looks at subsequent failures that spread through the financial network. This technique provides criteria for shocks and for initial and successive defaults. It considers cases with and without liquidity shocks.
This paper presents a connectivity measure using Kirchhoff's theorem. It computes the Kirchhoff number of all the banks in a financial network and finds the most and least vulnerable institutions. Finally, this paper tests the described connectivity measure by performing simulations on financial systems with a varying number of large banks and analyzing the results.


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Item Type: University of Pittsburgh ETD
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Megas, Cristina M.crm80@pitt.eduCRM80
ETD Committee:
TitleMemberEmail AddressPitt UsernameORCID
Committee CoChairChadam, John M.chadam@pitt.eduCHADAM
Committee CoChairConstantine, Gregory M.gmc@pitt.eduGMC
Committee MemberIon, Bogdanbion@pitt.eduBION
Date: 26 January 2012
Date Type: Publication
Defense Date: 7 December 2011
Approval Date: 26 January 2012
Submission Date: 6 December 2011
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Number of Pages: 60
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Mathematics
Degree: MS - Master of Science
Thesis Type: Master's Thesis
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: contagion, financial systems, financial networks, shocks
Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2012 21:22
Last Modified: 15 Nov 2016 13:55
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10690

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