The interbank market has a natural multiplex network representation. We employ a unique database of supervisory reports of Italian banks to the Banca d'Italia that includes all bilateral exposures broken down by maturity and by the secured and unsecured nature of the contract. We find that...

Many complex systems present an intrinsic bipartite nature and are described and modeled in terms of networks. Bipartite networks are often very heterogeneous in the number of relationships that the elements of one set establish with the elements of the other set and the heterogeneity makes it...