Contagion in the Brazilian interbank currency exchange marketan empirical analysis

Resumo

The risk of contagion is the possibility that the failure of a financial institution affected by an exogenous shock generates the failure of other institutions not initially affected by the shock. As pointed out by Upper and Worms (2002) and others, the domino effect in the payment system depends on the precise pattern of interbank linkages. This paper studies the occurrence of financial contagion after the exogenous failure of an institution authorized to operate in the Brazilian interbank currency market. The data contain information about all the actual transactions that occurred in this market from August 1st, 2000 to October 31st, 2002. The adopted methodology shows the occurrence of contagion propagation in several subsequent rounds after the initial failure. We quantify the number of institutions that breakdown and the financial losses of the market. There is a large increase in the number of failed institutions during the period of the presidential elections in 2002.

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Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2006

Instituição

Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Economia, Administração, Contabilidade e Atuária

Fonte

Estudos Econômicos

Idioma

Inglês

Acesso

Não informado

DOI

10.1590/S0101-41612006000200003

Identificador

oai:revistas.usp.br:article/35873

Licença

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Palavras-chave

contágiorisco sistêmicomercado interbancário câmbioBrasilcontagionsystemic riskinterbank currency marketBrazil