Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60649 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 243
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
We explore the network topology of the interbank payments transferred between commercial banks over the Fedwire® Funds Service. We find that the network is compact despite low connectivity. The network includes a tightly connected core of money-center banks to which all other banks connect. The degree distribution is scale-free over a substantial range. We find that the properties of the network changed considerably in the immediate aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Subjects: 
network, topology, interbank, payment, Fedwire, September 11, 2001
JEL: 
E59
E58
G1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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