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Stress Testing The Resilience Of Financial Networks

In: Finance at Fields

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  • HAMED AMINI

    (INRIA, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France and École Normale Supérieure, Rue d'Ulm, F-75230 Paris Cedex 05, France)

  • RAMA CONT

    (Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, CNRS – Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France and Deparment of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA)

  • ANDREEA MINCA

    (INRIA, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France and École Normale Supérieure, Rue d'Ulm, F-75230 Paris Cedex 05, France)

Abstract

We propose a simulation-free framework for stress testing the resilience of a financial network to external shocks affecting balance sheets. Whereas previous studies of contagion effects in financial networks have relied on large scale simulations, our approach uses a simple analytical criterion for resilience to contagion, based on an asymptotic analysis of default cascades in heterogeneous networks. In particular, our methodology does not require to observe the whole network but focuses on the characteristics of the network which contribute to its resilience. Applying this framework to a sample network, we observe that the size of the default cascade generated by a macroeconomic shock across balance sheets may exhibit a sharp transition when the magnitude of the shock reaches a certain threshold: Beyond this threshold, contagion spreads to a large fraction of the financial system. An upper bound is given for the threshold in terms of the characteristics of the network.

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  • Hamed Amini & Rama Cont & Andreea Minca, 2012. "Stress Testing The Resilience Of Financial Networks," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Matheus R Grasselli & Lane P Hughston (ed.), Finance at Fields, chapter 2, pages 17-36, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789814407892_0002
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