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Efficiency, stability, and government regulation of risk-sharing financial networks

Efficiency, stability, and government regulation of risk-sharing financial networks By applying models of social and economic networks to financial institutions, the purpose of this paper is to address the issues of how policy makers can promote financial network stability and social efficiency.Design/methodology/approachThe authors characterize the decentralized network formation of financial institutions in three stages through which institutions choose to become member banks connected to a central bank, bank-holding company subsidiaries or non-banks. Financial institutions choose one of the three roles in an endogenous process by considering the effects of sharing shocks among the members of the network. In the model, there is a social-welfare-maximizing government regulator at the center of the network.FindingsThe authors show that the stable equilibrium network is not always the efficient network, so the central authority must use policy instruments to ensure that the stable equilibrium network is as close as possible to the efficient network.Research limitations/implicationsTo obtain the theoretical results, the authors make assumptions about the utility function and risk aversion of a financial institution, as well as about the costs of network formation. These assumptions might need to be relaxed to bring the model closer to real-world institutions.Practical implicationsThe results suggest that regulators must try to set their policy variables to make the efficient network as close as possible to the stable network.Originality/valueThe contribution is to incorporate concepts from social network theory into the modeling of financial networks. The results may be of use to regulators in maintaining the stability of the financial system. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Managerial Finance Emerald Publishing

Efficiency, stability, and government regulation of risk-sharing financial networks

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Emerald Publishing
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0307-4358
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10.1108/mf-06-2018-0287
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Abstract

By applying models of social and economic networks to financial institutions, the purpose of this paper is to address the issues of how policy makers can promote financial network stability and social efficiency.Design/methodology/approachThe authors characterize the decentralized network formation of financial institutions in three stages through which institutions choose to become member banks connected to a central bank, bank-holding company subsidiaries or non-banks. Financial institutions choose one of the three roles in an endogenous process by considering the effects of sharing shocks among the members of the network. In the model, there is a social-welfare-maximizing government regulator at the center of the network.FindingsThe authors show that the stable equilibrium network is not always the efficient network, so the central authority must use policy instruments to ensure that the stable equilibrium network is as close as possible to the efficient network.Research limitations/implicationsTo obtain the theoretical results, the authors make assumptions about the utility function and risk aversion of a financial institution, as well as about the costs of network formation. These assumptions might need to be relaxed to bring the model closer to real-world institutions.Practical implicationsThe results suggest that regulators must try to set their policy variables to make the efficient network as close as possible to the stable network.Originality/valueThe contribution is to incorporate concepts from social network theory into the modeling of financial networks. The results may be of use to regulators in maintaining the stability of the financial system.

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Managerial Finance – Emerald Publishing

Published: May 23, 2019

Keywords: Banks; Efficiency; Stability; Financial networks; Regulatory policy; G18; G21; G29

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