The price of complexity in financial networks

Financial institutions form multilayer networks by engaging in contracts with each other and by holding exposures to common assets. As a result, the default probability of one institution depends on the default probability of all of the other institutions in the network. Here, we show how small erro...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2016-09, Vol.113 (36), p.10031-10036
Main Authors: Battiston, Stefano, Caldarelli, Guido, May, Robert M., Roukny, Tarik, Stiglitz, Joseph E.
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