The Price of Complexity in Financial Networks

Financial institutions form multi-layer networks of contracts among each other and exposures to common assets. As a result, the default probability of one institution depends on the default probability of all the other institutions in the network. Here, we show how small errors on the knowledge of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Battiston, S, Caldarelli, G, May, R, Roukny, T, Stiglitz, J
Format: Journal article
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2016