Systemic Risk and Complex Networks in Modern Financial Systems

This open access book is a groundbreaking exploration of systemic risk in modern financial systems. Through its theoretical and empirical investigations, it reveals the multidimensionality of systemic risk, the transmission channels of crises, and the interlinkages between physical, transition, and financial risks. It introduces cutting-edge methodologies, including prediction and optimization models based on complex networks, multilayer networks and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches, to forecast and measure systemic risk and financial crisis. It provides insight for academics, practitioners, policy and supervisory authorities, and bankers and financial market operators on understanding the links that determine the propagation of financial crises and the emergence of systemic risks. This book is essential for those wishing to better understand systemic risk and its implications.

Prof. Vincenzo Pacelli is qualified as University Full Professor in Economics of Financial Markets and Institutions, and currently is Associate Professor of Banking and Finance at University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy), where he holds the courses of “Economics of Financial Markets and Institutions” and “Banking Strategy and Management” and where he is President of two degree courses. He holds a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance from the University of Rome “Sapienza” and is Member of the organizing committee, Lecturer, and Chair of several international conferences. He is also Member of the Board of Directors of an Italian Bank, President of the Board of Statutory Auditors of firms, and Editor and Reviewer of many international scientific journals. Since 2005, he has published more than 80 scientific publications. His research areas include governance, performance, and risks in banking, systemic risk, forecasting in financial markets, complex networks in financial systems, intangibles and value in banks, financial risk management, artificial intelligence in banking and finance and asset management.