An Analysis of the Japanese Credit Network
Abstract
An analysis of the Japanese credit market in 2004 between banks and quoted firms is done in this paper using the tools of the networks theory. It can be pointed out that: (i) a backbone of the credit channel emerges, where some links play a crucial role; (ii) big banks privilege long-term contracts; the "minimal spanning trees" (iii) disclose a highly hierarchical backbone, where the central positions are occupied by the largest banks, and emphasize (iv) a strong geographical characterization, while (v) the clusters of firms do not have specific common properties. Moreover, (vi) while larger firms have multiple lending in large, (vii) the demand for credit (long vs. short term debt and multi-credit lines) of firms with similar sizes is very heterogeneous.
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@article{arxiv.0901.2384,
title = {An Analysis of the Japanese Credit Network},
author = {G. De Masi and Y. Fujiwara and M. Gallegati and B. Greenwald and J. E. Stiglitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.2384},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
23 pages with 14 figures; revised and Figure 14 added