The analysis of interconnectedness and contagion is an important part of the financial stability and risk assessment of a country's financial system. This paper offers detailed and practical guidance on how to conduct a comprehensive analysis of interconnectedness and contagion for a country's...

The impact of prudential policies in open economies depends not only on their intrinsic efficacy but also on the feedback of the policy through close financial partners. Using a dataset of advanced countries, we find that prudential policy measures reduce systemic risk in the financial system in...

This article explores the effect of delays in updating prudential regulation on countries' likelihood of experiencing banking crises, and it disentangles the impact of different aspects of regulation on crisis onset. I argue that delays in revising banks' prudential regulation allow banks to...