An important driver of research and of academic careers is grant funding. This article aims to analyse the impact of various factors (specifically gender, nationality and ethnicity) on the success of grant applications. We use data from applications of applicants based at a technical university...

We develop a Bayesian methodology for systemic risk assessment in financial networks such as the interbank market. Nodes represent participants in the network and weighted directed edges represent liabilities. Often, for every participant, only the total liabilities and total assets within this...

This paper is concerned with reconstructing weighted directed networks from the total in- and out-weight of each node. This problem arises for example in the analysis of systemic risk of partially observed financial networks. Typically a wide range of networks is consistent with this partial...