Quantile Connectedness: Modelling Tail Behaviour in Financial Networks

Compare Network Schematics at Different Quantiles

Select the cases to compare below -- e.g. choose 'OLS' and '0.95' to compare the network under OLS and at the 95th conditional quantile

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Each white node represents a sovereign and each shaded node represents a national financial sector

Lines between nodes represent spillover effects -- they are read in a counterclockwise direction

Spillovers intensify markely in both tails of the conditional distribution