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Stefano Battiston

University of Zurich, Dept. Banking and Finance, FINEXUS Center
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The physics of financial networks

M Bardoscia, P Barucca, S Battiston, F Caccioli… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
… i’s equity is larger than zero, i’s creditors take their interbank assets towards i at face value.
However, when bank i’s equity becomes smaller than or equal to zero, i’s … , i’s creditors set the …

[HTML][HTML] The network of global corporate control

S Vitali, JB Glattfelder, S Battiston - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The structure of the control network of transnational corporations affects global market
competition and financial stability. So far, only small national samples were studied and there was …

[HTML][HTML] Debtrank: Too central to fail? financial networks, the fed and systemic risk

S Battiston, M Puliga, R Kaushik, P Tasca… - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
… Instead, s i is a discrete variable with 3 possible states, undistressed, distressed, inactive:
s i ∈ {U, D, I}. Denoting by S f the set of nodes in distress at time 1, the initial conditions are: ; …

Liaisons dangereuses: Increasing connectivity, risk sharing, and systemic risk

S Battiston, DD Gatti, M Gallegati, B Greenwald… - Journal of economic …, 2012 - Elsevier
s has essentially two ranges of values: s < 0.05 (ie 5% of agents fail) in the regime of small
cascades and s > … of the value s c taken as definition of “large cascade”, as long as s c > 0.05 . …

A climate stress-test of the financial system

S Battiston, A Mandel, I Monasterolo, F Schütze… - Nature Climate …, 2017 - nature.com
… The results of the two exercises are consistent: the system’s VaR in the brown scenario is less
… If we denote by α iS the total exposure of actor i to sector S, we can write α iS = ∑ j∈S α ij …

Complexity theory and financial regulation

S Battiston, JD Farmer, A Flache, D Garlaschelli… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Traditional economic theory could not explain, much less predict, the near collapse of the
financial system and its long-lasting effects on the global economy. Since the 2008 crisis, there …

A model of a trust-based recommendation system on a social network

FE Walter, S Battiston, F Schweitzer - Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent …, 2008 - Springer
In this paper, we present a model of a trust-based recommendation system on a social
network. The idea of the model is that agents use their social network to reach information and …

Climate risks and financial stability

S Battiston, Y Dafermos, I Monasterolo - Journal of Financial Stability, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change has been recently recognised as a new source of risk for the financial system.
Over the last years, several central banks and financial supervisors have recommended …

Credit chains and bankruptcy propagation in production networks

S Battiston, DD Gatti, M Gallegati, B Greenwald… - Journal of Economic …, 2007 - Elsevier
… Q ij ( K , K - 1 ) Y j ( K - 1 ) , where Y i is the output of firm i, S i is the set of suppliers of firm i,
… Notice that if payments are delayed, we cannot replace Y i s ( t ) with Y i ( t ) in the equation, …

Default cascades: When does risk diversification increase stability?

S Battiston, DD Gatti, M Gallegati, B Greenwald… - Journal of Financial …, 2012 - Elsevier
… slope (ie, small σ) there is always a value of m small enough so that F(s) > s for all n ∈]0
1[and thus the only stable point is the one closer to s = 1. The same result applies to Eq. (15). …