German interbank contagion risk concentrated around four large banks, paper argues

Researchers propose new model to calculate costs of interbank contagion

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Contagion risk in the German interbank credit market is concentrated around four institutions, a paper published this month by the Deutsche Bundesbank argues.

In The credit quality channel: modeling contagion in the interbank market, Kilian Fink, Ulrich Krüger, Barbara Meller and Lui-Hsian Wong propose a network-based approach to measuring financial contagion in the interbank market.

The authors calculate the probability of default of individual banks. They then study the effect of an increase

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