In this paper the contagious effect of the default of one financial institution is discussed. For that purpose, a network model is introduced describing the interconnectedness between different banks as well as their dependencies to the rest of the economy. Then, possible extensions to this...

The term Fraud does not need any formal introduction, the disaster it has been creating since the past decades has left an everlasting effect on the world. It has become a part of almost every company in recent times. No matter what is the size, geographical location or the industry of the...

We propose a flexible machine learning (ML) framework for real-time transaction monitoring in high-value payment systems (HVPS), which are a central piece of a country's financial infrastructure. This framework can be used by system operators and overseers to detect anomalous transactions,...

Financial technologies, boosted by the availability of machine learning models, are expanding in all areas of finance: from payments (peer to peer lending) to asset management (robot advisors) to payments (blockchain coins). Machine learning models typically achieve a high accuracy at the...

This paper evolves from the sharp contrast in Smithian and Keynesian views about the relationship between the financial structure and the economy. The Smithian perspective implies that the financial structure is irrelevant, whereas the Keynesian position concludes that effective financing is...

We propose a new methodology to assess intermediaries’ substitutability in financial networks featuring higher-order structures (credit intermediation chains). We represent the financial network as a hyperstructure and each credit intermediation chain as a hyperedge. This approach allows us to...

This study investigates the impact of financial stability on economic growth in Nigeria by employingthe Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ADRL) technique using time series data from Q1, 2006-Q4, 2020. Real GDP is the experimental variable and proxy for economic growth, while financial stability is...

This paper aims at verifying the nature of the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Brazil. From the theoretical point-of-view, although the prevailing view through which financial development generate direct impacts on economic growth, there are distinct positions....