Financial contagion: extending the exposures network of the Mexican financial system

Juan Solorzano-Margain (), Serafin Martinez-Jaramillo and Fabrizio Lopez-Gallo

Computational Management Science, 2013, vol. 10, issue 2, 125-155

Abstract: Direct contagion has been widely studied in recent years and little evidence has been found to be relevant to the study of systemic risk. However, we argue that this limited contagion effect might be associated with a lack of relevant data. A common assumption for the estimation of the matrices of exposures is to apply the maximum entropy principle to deal with data gaps; such an assumption might lead to an underestimation of contagion risk. In this paper, there are no data gaps and the information set is extended from interbank exposures alone to exposures among most of the financial intermediaries in the Mexican financial system (we even include exposures to some international foreign banks). Naturally, the contagion risk of an extended network of exposures changes with respect to the interbank exposures network, as there are many more institutions which can be the source of contagion and there are more institutions which can fail due to contagion. The most important contribution of this paper is that it provides evidence on financial contagion with an extended exposures network under stressful conditions. The results presented here support the international efforts by the Bank for International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund and the Financial Stability Board to increase the amount of information available which can be used to assess systemic risk and contagion based on exposures and funding data. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Keywords: Systemic risk; Financial contagion; Interbank market; Macroeconomic stress testing; Interfinancial exposures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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