An endogenous network model of banking systems

In this article, we propose an endogenous network model for banking systems. Starting from the balance sheets of a banking system and its update algorithms, the interbank credit lending was established based on the partner selection mechanism. Through simulation analysis, we find that the endogenous network model displays a structure with multiple liquidity centers, that the in‐degree distribution exhibits a Pareto tail, and that the bank asset distribution is a lognormal distribution with a Pareto tail. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 21: 512–520, 2016