Memmel, Christoph; Sachs, Angelika; Stein, Ingrid - In: International Journal of Central Banking 8 (2012) 3, pp. 177-206
This paper investigates contagion in the German interbank market under the assumption of a stochastic loss given default (LGD). We combine a unique data set about the LGD of interbank loans with detailed data about interbank exposures. We find that the frequency distribution of the LGD is...