Download or read book Centrality-based Capital Allocations written by Adrian Alter and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We look at the effect of capital rules on a banking system that is connected through correlated credit exposures and interbank lending. The rules, which combine individual bank characteristics and interconnectivity measures of interbank lending, are to minimize a measure of system-wide losses. Using the detailed German Credit Register for estimation, we find capital rules based on eigenvectors to dominate any other centrality measure, followed by closeness. Compared to the baseline case, capital reallocation based on the Adjacency Eigenvector saves about 15% in system losses as measured by expected bankruptcy costs.