Modular scale-free architecture of Colombian financial networks : evidence and challenges with financial stability in view

Número: 
799
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
D85, E42, C38, D53, G20, L14
Palabras clave: 
Networks, Complex Adaptive Systems, Self-organization, financial system

Scale-free (inhomogeneous) connective structures with modular (highly clustered) hierarchies are ubiquitous in real–world networks. Evidence from the main Colombian payment and settlement systems verifies that local financial networks have self-organized