The ecology of collateral haircuts

August 12, 2011

New Scientist has an editorial that points to “Complexity, Concentration and Contagion” out of the Bank of England.

The paper describes some experiments with a network calibrated to look like the UK banking sector.  The experiments are trying to determine the effect of haircuts on collateral for interbank loans.

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