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AUTHOR
Giovanni Di Iasio
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Special issue of Quantitative Finance on ‘Interlinkages and Systemic Risk’
2015
This special issue of Quantitative Finance collects eight papers on the relation between interlinkages and systemic risk. The papers cover several types of interlinkages and follow different approaches, from agent-based modelling to empirical investigation of large and sometimes confidential data. The special issue collects some of the contributions presented at the international workshop‘Interlinkages and systemic risk ’ , which took place in Ancona (Italy) on 4 – 5 July 2013. The workshop, organized within the research project‘. New tools in the credit network modeling with agents ’ heterogeneity ’ funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, was attended by a balanced mix of schola…
The multiplex structure of interbank networks
2013
The interbank market has a natural multiplex network representation. We employ a unique database of supervisory reports of Italian banks to the Banca d'Italia that includes all bilateral exposures broken down by maturity and by the secured and unsecured nature of the contract. We find that layers have different topological properties and persistence over time. The presence of a link in a layer is not a good predictor of the presence of the same link in other layers. Maximum entropy models reveal different unexpected substructures, such as network motifs, in different layers. Using the total interbank network or focusing on a specific layer as representative of the other layers provides a po…