There is a current controversy concerning the appropriate size of capital requirements for banks to mitigate systemic losses. We are the first in kind to quantify the size of capital buffers required to reduce systemic losses using loan loss provisions data for Australian banks from 2002 to 2014...

We introduce an endogenous network model of the interbank overnight lending market. Banks are motivated to meet the minimum reserve requirements set by the Central Bank, but their reserves are subject to random shocks. To adjust their expected end-of-the-day reserves, banks enter the interbank...