The physics of financial networks

M Bardoscia, P Barucca, S Battiston, F Caccioli… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
As the total value of the global financial market outgrew the value of the real economy,
financial institutions created a global web of interactions that embodies systemic risks …

Allocating stimulus checks in times of crisis

M Papachristou, J Kleinberg - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We study the problem of financial assistance (bailouts, stimulus payments, or subsidy
allocations) in a network where individuals experience income shocks. These questions are …

Default ambiguity: finding the best solution to the clearing problem

PA Papp, R Wattenhofer - International Conference on Web and Internet …, 2021 - Springer
We study financial networks with debt contracts and credit default swaps between specific
pairs of banks. Given such a financial system, we want to decide which of the banks are in …

[HTML][HTML] Financial networks with singleton liability priorities

SD Ioannidis, B De Keijzer, C Ventre - Theoretical Computer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Financial networks model debt obligations between economic firms. Computational and
game-theoretic analyses of these networks have been recent focus of the literature. The …

Debt swap** for risk mitigation in financial networks

PA Papp, R Wattenhofer - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We study financial networks where banks are connected by debt contracts. We consider the
operation of debt swap** when two creditor banks decide to exchange an incoming …

[HTML][HTML] Payment scheduling in the interval debt model

T Friedetzky, DC Kutner, GB Mertzios, IA Stewart… - Theoretical Computer …, 2025 - Elsevier
The network-based study of financial systems has received considerable attention in recent
years but has seldom explicitly incorporated the dynamic aspects of such systems. We …

Seniorities and minimal clearing in financial network games

M Hoefer, L Wilhelmi - International Symposium on Algorithmic Game …, 2022 - Springer
Financial network games model payment incentives in the context of networked liabilities. In
this paper, we advance the understanding of incentives in financial networks in two …

The complexity of debt swap**

H Froese, M Hoefer, L Wilhelmi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2302.11250, 2023 - arxiv.org
A debt swap is an elementary edge swap in a directed, weighted graph, where two edges
with the same weight swap their targets. Debt swaps are a natural and appealing operation …

Equilibria and Convergence in Fire Sale Games

N Bertschinger, M Hoefer, S Krogmann… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The complex interactions between algorithmic trading agents can have a severe influence
on the functioning of our economy, as witnessed by recent banking crises and trading …

Optimal Resource Allocation for Remediating Networked Contagions

M Papachristou, S Banerjee… - Available at SSRN …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the problem of designing intervention policies for minimizing failures in dynamic
networked contagion settings using the Eisenberg-Noe model of contagion. Our controller …