Financial Contagion: the Role of Banks

Robert Kollmann () and Frederic Malherbe

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Abstract: This paper provides an overview of recent theories of international financial contagion, with a focus on models in which the balance sheet constraints of global banks (and other financial institutions) are the key channel of international transmission.

Keywords: global financial crisis; international financial contagion; international financial multiplier; global banks; bank balance sheets; capital ratio; leverage ratio; international interbank market; asset prices; credit losses; bank runs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 F3 G1 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability, Political, Social, Cultural, and Economic Theories and Models (Gerard Caprio, editor), 2012, Vol.2, Oxford: Elsevier. (2012): pp. 139-143

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