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Systemic Risk In Financial Networks, Peng-Chu Chen
Systemic Risk In Financial Networks, Peng-Chu Chen
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This thesis extends the literature of systemic risk in financial networks in two directions.
First, we develop a majorization-based tool to compare financial networks in terms of systemic losses with a focus on the implications of liability concentration. Specifically, we quantify liability concentration by applying the majorization order to the liability matrix that captures the interconnectedness of banks in a financial network. We develop notions of balancing and unbalancing networks to bring out the qualitatively different implications of liability concentration on the system's loss profile. An empirical analysis of the network formed by the banking sectors of eight representative European …