Mechanism of Financial Contagion
Imagine a financial system where many large banks, while not directly lending to each other, have all invested heavily in the same specific type of asset. If a sudden market shock causes the value of this asset to plummet and leads to the collapse of one major bank, explain the process by which this single failure could trigger a crisis that spreads to the other, seemingly unconnected banks.
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