Influential node detection is a central research topic in social network analysis. Many existing methods rely on the assumption that the network structure is completely known \textit{a priori}. However, in many applications, network structure is unavailable to explain the underlying information diffusion phenomenon. To…
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Estimates peer influence effects using embeddings for social networks.
problem Estimating peer contagion effects in social networks with unobserved confounders.
method Nonparametrically adjusts for homophily using node embeddings.
result Formalizes causal effect of peer influence in social networks.
Tax Migration as Social Contagion: A Tipping-Point Model with Application to the Scandinavian Wealth Tax Debatephysics.soc-ph
Model shows wealth taxes can cause sudden emigration waves, impacting GDP.
problem Estimating the economic impact of wealth taxes on emigration.
method Developed a social contagion model with tipping-point dynamics, embedded in Fokker-Planck framework.
result Micro-to-macro extrapolation requires five conditions to hold, violating each.
A new model characterizes undocumented and asymptomatic infections to quantify COVID-19 uncertainties.
problem Quantifying uncertainties in COVID-19 infections and contagion.
method SUDR model: characterizes undocumented and documented infections, captures probabilistic density, and incorporates Bayesian inference.
result Demonstrates deeper understanding of COVID-19 uncertainties compared to classic models.
A new framework for causal inference in networked settings.
problem Causal inference under network interference.
method Characterize agent network configuration and use it to estimate treatment effects.
result Finite-sample bounds and asymptotically valid tests for policy irrelevance.
Modeling default contagion and systemic risk using a balls-and-bins approach.
problem Understanding and quantifying systemic risk in financial networks.
method Tractable model, balls-and-bins representation, type space classification, limit theorems.
result Asymptotic Gaussian fluctuations in the final size of default cascades.
Cascading chains of events are a salient feature of many real-world social, biological, and financial networks. In social networks, social reciprocity accounts for retaliations in gang interactions, proxy wars in nation-state conflicts, or Internet memes shared via social media. Neuron spikes stimulate or inhibit spike…
Method reconstructs networks from contagion dynamics.
problem Fitting contagion models assumes simple dynamics, ignoring complex contagions.
method Nonparametric method to reconstruct network and dynamics from node states.
result Networks are easier to reconstruct through complex contagions in dense or saturated networks.
Contagion maps detect network structure in noisy data.
problem Detecting underlying manifold structure in noisy data.
method Using activation times in threshold contagions to map network nodes to high-dimensional space.
result Contagion maps reliably detect manifold structure in noisy data, while Isomap fails.
Using Network-based Causal Inference to Detect the Sources of Contagion in the Currency Marketq-fin.ST
New method detects currency contagion sources using causal inference.
problem Lack of causal interpretation in quantifying contagion among currencies.
method Network-based causal inference to identify contagion paths.
result Identifies sources of contagion and diversification options.
Community-level Contagion among Diverse Financial Assetsphysics.soc-ph
Study examines financial contagion at community level, finding increased contagion density and widespread transmission.
problem Understanding and managing financial contagion in interconnected markets.
method High-frequency data, Louvain community detection, Vector Autoregression, Tracy-Widom random matrix theory.
result Contagion density increases over time, and there is no significant difference between intra- and inter-community contagion.
Identifiability of Contagion Components amid Environmental Fluctuations in Aggregated Default Countsq-fin.RM
Study identifies contagion in aggregated defaults despite environmental changes.
problem Identify contagion in aggregated default counts with fluctuating probabilities.
method Compare three contagion mechanisms (Davis-Lo, Torri, Vasicek) under i.i.d. and hierarchical specifications.
result Threshold contagion is largely absorbed into environmental heterogeneity, while cumulative contagion leaves a persistent signature.
Crisis Propagation in a Heterogeneous Self-Reflexive DSGE Modelcond-mat.stat-mech
Model shows how confidence feedback can lead to different crisis outcomes.
problem Characterizing the impact of economic recessions on different social strata.
method A self-reflexive DSGE model with heterogeneous households, varying parameters to analyze crisis typologies.
result Crisis propagation can be confined to high or low income households, depending on social network structure and income inequality.
Twitter provides an open and rich source of data for studying human behaviour at scale and is widely used in social and network sciences. However, a major criticism of Twitter data is that demographic information is largely absent. Enhancing Twitter data with user ages would advance our ability to study social network …
Paper uses interbank contagion to predict U.S. bank defaults, finding it highly explanatory.
problem Predicting U.S. bank defaults using interbank contagion.
method Regression and neural network models were used to analyze U.S. commercial bank data.
result Interbank contagion is highly explanatory in default prediction, often outperforming established metrics.
This paper examines how the U.S.--China trade war affects stock markets, finding evidence of financial contagion and changes in risk channels.
problem The impact of the U.S.--China trade war on stock markets and financial contagion.
method Developed a novel jump-diffusion process to account for risk contagion, using high-frequency financial data and quasi-maximum likelihood estimator.
result Evidence of financial contagion from the U.S. to China, with changes in risk contagion channels.
This thesis models financial contagion and stability, providing insights for systemic risk management.
problem Systemic risk in financial networks through default contagion and fire sales.
method Developed mathematical models for default contagion in weighted financial networks, derived asymptotic expressions for total damage.
result Explicit asymptotic expressions for total damage and stability criteria for financial systems.
Study connects bank default models using dynamic contagion.
problem Understanding default contagion in heterogeneous interbank systems.
method Proposes a dynamic default contagion model with endogenous early defaults for a finite set of banks, reformulating as a stochastic particle system.
result Existence of clearing systems and continuity of the system response for the mean-field problem.
Complex contagion model explains financial fire sales through continuous asset prices.
problem Modeling financial fire sales with a continuum of asset prices.
method Developed a threshold model of continuous-state cascades using real values for asset prices.
result Discretization approach accurately replicates the distribution of defaulted banks and asset prices.
I show the equivalence between a model of financial contagion and the threshold model of global cascades proposed by Watts (2002). The model financial network comprises banks that hold risky external assets as well as interbank assets. It is shown that a simple threshold model can replicate the size and the frequency o…
iConViz: Interactive Visual Exploration of the Default Contagion Risk of Networked-Guarantee Loansq-fin.RM
iConViz helps banks manage default contagion risk in networked loans.
problem Managing default contagion risk in networked loans during economic downturns.
method Developed iConViz, an interactive tool, and a novel metric (contagion effect) to quantify and analyze the risk.
result iConViz facilitates closed-loop analysis and helps avoid ad hoc methods.
Contagions such as the spread of popular news stories, or infectious diseases, propagate in cascades over dynamic networks with unobservable topologies. However, "social signals" such as product purchase time, or blog entry timestamps are measurable, and implicitly depend on the underlying topology, making it possible …
In classical contagion models, default systems are Markovian conditionally on the observation of their stochastic environment, with interacting intensities. This necessitates that the environment evolves autonomously and is not influenced by the history of the default events. We extend the classical literature and allo…
Study uses Hawkes processes to analyze stock market contagion in China.
problem Understanding contagion in Chinese stock market.
method Fitting Hawkes processes to daily returns and sector indices.
result Identifies long-term dependencies and trending patterns in sector indices.
Rethinking Financial Contagionq-fin.RM
How, and to what extent, does an interconnected financial system endogenously amplify external shocks? This paper attempts to reconcile some apparently different views emerged after the 2008 crisis regarding the nature and the relevance of contagion in financial networks. We develop a common framework encompassing seve…
Study combines intra-risk and contagion risk for SME bankruptcy prediction.
problem Predicting bankruptcy risk of SMEs considering both intra-risk and contagion risk.
method Proposes a novel model using Graph Neural Networks to combine intra-risk and contagion risk.
result Model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in bankruptcy prediction.
Many new models for measuring financial contagion have been presented recently. While these models have not been specified for investment funds directly, there are many similarities that could be explored to extend the models. In this work we explore ideas developed about financial contagion to create a network of inve…
Systemic risks of default contagion in the Russian interbank market are investigated. The analysis is based on considering the bow-tie structure of the weighted oriented graph describing the structure of the interbank loans. A probabilistic model of interbank contagion explicitly taking into account the empirical bow-t…
Model shows worldwide trade crises can be localized or global, depending on trade balance.
problem Understanding and predicting worldwide trade crises.
method Modeling worldwide trade network using Google matrix analysis and bankruptcy threshold.
result Crisis contagion is localized for high trade balance, global for low trade balance.
The importance of adequately modeling credit risk has once again been highlighted in the recent financial crisis. Defaults tend to cluster around times of economic stress due to poor macro-economic conditions, {\em but also} by directly triggering each other through contagion. Although credit default swaps have radical…
Optimal credit and consumption strategies in a switching market with default contagion.
problem Optimal portfolio and consumption decisions in a credit market with default contagion.
method Cobb-Douglas utility, recursive ODE system, backward solution from all-default state.
result Existence and uniqueness of optimal feedback controls, verification theorem.
The present paper introduces a structural framework to model dependent defaults, with a particular interest in their contagion.
Measures risk contagion in financial networks using CoVaR.
problem Assessing stability of complex financial systems.
method Financial network model with bipartite graph of institutions and assets, heavy-tailed distributions, copula models, CoVaR and ECI.
result Proposes the Extreme CoVaR Index (ECI) for capturing risk contagion strength.
Deep learning of contagion dynamics on complex networksphysics.soc-ph
Deep learning predicts contagion dynamics on complex networks.
problem Forecasting contagion dynamics on complex networks is challenging.
method Graph neural network learns local mechanisms from time series data.
result Deep learning offers new and accurate models of contagion dynamics.
This paper models financial contagion with endogenously determined market liquidity.
problem Financial contagion and its impact on market liquidity during price drops.
method Developed a joint clearing system for interbank payments, asset prices, and market liquidity, with endogenous market capacity.
result Endogenous market liquidity significantly affects system risk during financial contagion.
In spite of the growing theoretical literature on cascades of failures in interbank lending networks, empirical results seem to suggest that networks of direct exposures are not the major channel of financial contagion. In this paper we show that networks of interbank exposures can however significantly amplify contagi…
Study quantifies financial contagion risks in supply chains.
problem Supply chain shocks contribute to financial losses.
method Multi-layer network framework, micro-dataset of Hungarian firms.
result Supply chain shocks amplify financial losses by 4-3x.
Model connects financial contagion models to mean field analysis.
problem Systemic risk in financial networks.
method Combines Eisenberg-Noe and mean field models.
result Mean field limit derived from finite bank system.
We consider a model of contagion in financial networks recently introduced in the literature, and we characterize the effect of a few features empirically observed in real networks on the stability of the system. Notably, we consider the effect of heterogeneous degree distributions, heterogeneous balance sheet size and…
Model predicts credit portfolio losses with contagion effects.
problem Predicting credit portfolio losses with contagion effects.
method Introduced a model with a recursive algorithm and flexible distributions.
result Good fit for synthetic CDO tranches of the iTraxx index.
We consider the problem of optimal investment and consumption in a class of multidimensional jump-diffusion models in which asset prices are subject to mutually exciting jump processes. This captures a type of contagion where each downward jump in an asset's price results in increased likelihood of further jumps, both …
Model shows how banks' fears of future defaults can cause immediate financial stress.
problem How banks' future default worries cause immediate financial stress.
method Dynamic interbank model with endogenous distress contagion, mark-to-market valuation adjustment, forward-backward approach.
result Distress contagion acts as a stochastic volatility term leading to clustering and down-market spikes.
It had been believed in the conventional practice that the risk of a bank going bankrupt is lessened in a straightforward manner by transferring the risk of loan defaults. But the failure of American International Group in 2008 posed a more complex aspect of financial contagion. This study presents an extension of the …
This paper develops a new framework to assess crypto portfolio risk using simulation methods.
problem Traditional financial risk models fail to capture crypto market characteristics like volatility and contagion.
method The framework integrates four components: volatility stress testing, hedging, contagion modeling, and Monte Carlo simulation.
result The framework robustly assesses crypto portfolio risk and is validated with real data.
Common asset holdings are widely believed to have been the primary vector of contagion in the recent financial crisis. We develop a network approach to the amplification of financial contagion due to the combination of overlapping portfolios and leverage, and we show how it can be understood in terms of a generalized b…
Study controlled contagion with state-dependent killing, proving a comparison principle.
problem Analyzing controlled McKean--Vlasov contagion with state-dependent killing.
method Proof of a comparison principle using Wasserstein smooth-gauge comparison and killing-jump absorption estimates.
result Established a comparison principle for the two-population killed-particle HJB.
The paper analyzes how contagion affects the survival probability of investment groups in microfinance.
problem The impact of contagion on the survival probability of investment groups in microfinance.
method A probabilistic approach to compute group survival probability with and without contagion effects.
result In homogeneous groups, including more members increases the probability of eventual default to 1.
We propose a novel approach and an empirical procedure to test direct contagion of growth rate in a trade credit network of firms. Our hypotheses are that the use of trade credit contributes to contagion (from many customers to a single supplier - "many to one" contagion) and amplification (through their interaction wi…