The global financial system can be represented as a large complex network in which banks,
hedge funds and other financial institutions are interconnected to each other through visible …

Network approaches have become pervasive in many research fields. They allow for a more
comprehensive understanding of complex relationships between entities as well as their …

In many data sets, information on the structure and temporality of a system coexists with
noise and non-essential elements. In networked systems for instance, some edges might be …

Human activities widely exhibit a power-law distribution. Considering stock trading as a
typical human activity in the financial domain, the first aim of this paper is to validate whether …

Relationship lending is broadly interpreted as a strong partnership between a lender and a
borrower. Nevertheless, we still lack consensus regarding how to quantify the strength of a …

The lead-lag relationship between stocks is an interesting phenomenon, which has been
empirically seen to widely exist in stock markets. This paper aims to discover the dynamic …

Humanity faces a myriad of existential technology, geopolitical, and ecological risks. The
paper analyzes the possibility that negative shocks superimpose and multiply their effects …

The indirect correlation among financial institutions, stemming from similarities in their
portfolios, is a primary driver of systemic risk. However, most existing research overlooks the …

In this paper, a new type of pinning control (PC) is proposed to investigate the prescribed-
time synchronization (PTS) of stochastic complex dynamical networks (SCDNs) with or …

Densification and sparsification of social networks are attributed to two fundamental
mechanisms: a change in the population in the system, and/or a change in the chances that …