TY - UNPB Y1 - 2013/// AV - none TI - DebtRank a centrality measure for financial systems and beyond UR - http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR13/Event/184711 A1 - Caldarelli, Guido A1 - Battiston, Stefano A1 - Puliga, Michelangelo A1 - Kaushik, Rahul A1 - Tasca, Paolo N2 - Use of network theory made possible to measure quantitatively many features of social and technological systems. In this spirit, inspired by traditional measures of centrality we introduce DebtRank a novel measure of systemic impact. We that we intend the risk of default of a large portion of the financial system, depends on the network of financial exposures among institutions. As an application, we analyse a new and unique dataset on the USD 1.2 trillion FED emergency loans program to global financial institutions during 2008--2010. We find that a group of 22 institutions, which received most of the funds, form a strongly connected graph where each of the nodes becomes systemically important at the peak of the crisis. Moreover, a systemic default could have been triggered even by small dispersed shocks. Other application to different systems are also presented. ID - eprints1459 N1 - Session G28: Statistical Mechanics of Social Systems T2 - APS March Meeting 2013 ER -