Optimal control of interbank contagion under complete information
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Andreea Minca
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Agnès Sulem
Abstract
We study a preferred equity infusion government program set to mitigate interbank contagion. Financial institutions are prone to insolvency risk channeled through the network of interbank debt and to funding liquidity risk. The government seeks to maximize, under budget constraints, the total net worth of the financial system or, equivalently, to minimize the dead-weight losses induced by bank runs. The government is assumed to have complete information on interbank debt. The problem of quantifying the optimal amount of infusions can be expressed as a convex combinatorial optimization problem, tractable when the set of banks eligible for intervention (core banks) is sufficiently, yet realistically, small. We find that no bank has an incentive to withdraw from the program, when the preferred dividend rate paid to the government is equal to the government's outside return on the intervention budget. On the other hand, it may be optimal for the government to make infusions in a strict subset of core banks.
©2014 Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Special Issue on Systemic Risk
- Foreword
- Central clearing of OTC derivatives: Bilateral vs multilateral netting
- Optimal control of interbank contagion under complete information
- On dependence consistency of CoVaRand some other systemic risk measures
- Spatial risk measures and their local specification: The locally law-invariant case
- Complete duality for quasiconvex dynamic risk measures on modules of the Lp-type
