Network theory allows systemic risk assessment of banks, paper argues

New model gives useful insights for regulators, author argues

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The European Central Bank

It is possible to use network theory to assess how much risk individual banks present to other banks in Europe, a paper published this month by the European Central Bank (ECB) argues.

In Systemic risk rankings and network centrality in the European banking sector, Valerie De Bruyckere presents a methodology to assess the systemic risk presented by different European banks using publicly available information.

The paper uses a Bayesian Model Averaging of Locally Weighted Regression Models (BMA

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