Articles from FOC Blog feed

• The challenges to economic stability posed by complex financial networks are the main subject of the March issue of Nature Physics Focus.
• Network scientists, economists and regulators team-up for the first time to discuss this problem.
• Why financial networks get unstable; network approaches pursued by regulators; and future research avenues are some of the subjects of the Focus.

The queries that people make on the web can measure the “temperature” of a financial crisis well in advance, says Guido Caldarelli, physicist at IMT Lucca, coordinator of the FOC project (Forecasting Financial Crises).

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Finance is as fragile as a house of cards, as complicated as a Rubik cube, and as intermingled as a bunch of mikado sticks. Science can help to sort out patterns in the complexity of the economic world. FOC has developed new tools to model, monitor, and visualize crucial patterns of financial crises.

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Queries issued today on search engines can tell you something about how the stock market will go tomorrow, says Antti Ukkonen, computer scientist at Barcelona Media (Spain), partner of the FOC project.