Systemic financial risk

This report analyses the results of simulations using an agent based model of financial markets to show how excessive levels of leverage in financial markets can lead to a systemic crash.  Investors overload on risky assets betting more than they have to gamble creating a tremendous level of vulnera...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Paris : OECD 2011.
Series:OECD reviews of risk management policies,
OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies,
Subjects:
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705439206719
Table of Contents:
  • Summary
  • Social unrest and agent based models
  • Outlook
  • Evolutionary pressure for increasing leverage
  • Introduction
  • A simple agent based model of financial markets
  • Leverage and systemic risk
  • Implications
  • How leverage increases volatility
  • Executive summary
  • Foreword.