We present an analysis of the credit market of Japan. The analysis is performed by investigating the bipartite network of banks and firms which is obtained by setting a link between a bank and a firm when a credit relationship is present in a given time window. In our investigation we focus on a...

Stability of the banking system and macro-prudential regulation are essential for healthy economic growth. In this paper we study the European bank network and its vulnerability to stressing differ- ent bank assets. The importance of macro-prudential policy is emphasized by the inherent...