Bargigli, Leonardo; Gallegati, Mauro - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In this paper the authors focus on credit connections as a potential source of systemic risk. In particular, they seek … to answer the following question: how do we find densely connected subsets of nodes within a credit network? The question … decomposition method. To illustrate this method they provide a community description of the Japanese bank-firm credit network …