A network view on interbank market freezes

Silvia Gabrieli () and Co-Pierre Georg ()

Working papers from Banque de France

Abstract: We study the liquidity allocation among European banks around the Lehman Brothers insolvency using a novel dataset of all interbank loans settled via the Eurosystem s payment system TARGET2. Following the Lehman insolvency, lenders in the overnight segment become sensitive to counterparty characteristics and banks start hoarding liquidity by shortening the maturity of their interbank lending. This aggregate change in liquidity reallocation is accompanied by a substantial structural change that can best be characterized as a shrinking of the interbank network. Such a change is consequential: banks with higher centrality within the network have better access to liquidity and are able to charge larger intermediation spreads. Therefore, we show the existence of a sizeable interbank lending channel.

Keywords: Interbank loans; network topology; financial stability. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D85 E5 G1 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2014
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