Graphical Network Models for International Financial Flows
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- 2 January 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
- Vol. 34 (1), 128-138
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07350015.2015.1017643
Abstract
The late-2000s financial crisis stressed the need to understand the world financial system as a network of countries, where cross-border financial linkages play a fundamental role in the spread of systemic risks. Financial network models, which take into account the complex interrelationships between countries, seem to be an appropriate tool in this context. To improve the statistical performance of financial network models, we propose to generate them by means of multivariate graphical models. We then introduce Bayesian graphical models, which can take model uncertainty into account, and dynamic Bayesian graphical models, which provide a convenient framework to model temporal cross-border data, decomposing the model into autoregressive and contemporaneous networks. The article shows how the application of the proposed models to the Bank of International Settlements locational banking statistics allows the identification of four distinct groups of countries, that can be considered central in systemic risk contagion.Keywords
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