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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2025, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (12): 26-40.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2024.0427

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The Influence of Information Spillover on Liquidity Risk Contagion in Bank-firm Guarantee Network

Zhinan Li, Jingyue Lei(), Peilong Shen   

  1. School of Finance,Shanxi University of Finance and Economics,Taiyuan 030006,China
  • Received:2024-03-22 Revised:2024-06-15 Online:2025-12-25 Published:2025-12-25
  • Contact: Jingyue Lei E-mail:Leijingyue614@163.com

Abstract:

During China’s three default waves in 2008, 2011, and 2015, the impact of corporate defaults was transmitted to financial institutions. However, the risk did not remain contained; it further propagated to other firms. This resulted in a significant number of normally functioning firms—those that do not belong to the same industry chain and lack direct transactional relationships but are interconnected through the same bank or guarantee institution—falling into liquidity crises one after another. This phenomenon cannot be explained by existing risk transmission mechanisms. Therefore, the phenomenon is explained from the perspective of information spillover and its impact on liquidity risk contagion in the bank-firm guarantee network is explored. A multi-layer bank-firm guarantee network model is constructed including an interbank lending network, a supply chain commercial credit network, a supply chain financing guarantee network, a commercial guarantee network between firms and guarantee institutions, and a loan network between banks and firms. The information is divided into bankruptcy information and liquidity information, and computational experimental methods are used to study the influence of information spillover on liquidity risk contagion in the bank-firm guarantee network.Research indicates that in the absence of external shocks, information spillover tends to increase the number of liquidity bankruptcies for banks and firms. Conversely, during periods of external shocks, information spillover leads to an increase in firm liquidity bankruptcies while simultaneously decreasing bank liquidity bankruptcies. The parameter sensitivity analysis reveals that in highly uncertain external environments, information spillover positively influences banks by enhancing business stability and mitigating external risks. Improving banks' risk awareness and risk appetite, along with making positive information disclosure, can help mitigate the adverse effects of information spillover and reduce the extent of liquidity risk transmission. When bank-firm leverage levels are high while firm management ability is low, information spillover may exacerbate liquidity risk contagion. Furthermore, if there is a liquidity information spillover between firms, they can timely adjust accounts receivable to restrain liquidity risk contagion. The impact mechanism of information spillover on risk contagion in bank-firm guarantee networks is investigated, contributing to the research on risk contagion between banks and firms. The research findings provide theoretical insights into mitigating information asymmetry between banks and firms and reducing the adverse effects of information spillovers on liquidity risk contagion within these networks.

Key words: information spillover, bank-firm guarantee network, liquidity risk, agent-based computational finance

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