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Statistical Model Checking of the Island Model: An Established Economic Agent-Based Model of Endogenous Growth
Stefano Blando, Giorgio Fagiolo, Daniele Giachini +2
Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly used to study complex economic phenomena such as endogenous growth, but their analysis typically relies on ad-hoc Monte Carlo exercises w…
Venture Capital investments through the lens of Network and Functional Data Analysis
Christian Esposito, Marco Gortan, Lorenzo Testa +4
In this paper we characterize the performance of venture capital-backed firms based on their ability to attract investment. The aim of the study is to identify relevant predictors…
Mesoscopic Structure of the Stock Market and Portfolio Optimization
Sebastiano Michele Zema, Giorgio Fagiolo, Tiziano Squartini +1
The idiosyncratic (microscopic) and systemic (macroscopic) components of market structure have been shown to be responsible for the departure of the optimal mean-variance allocatio…
Can you always reap what you sow? Network and functional data analysis of VC investments in health-tech companies
Christian Esposito, Marco Gortan, Lorenzo Testa +4
"Success" of firms in venture capital markets is hard to define, and its determinants are still poorly understood. We build a bipartite network of investors and firms in the health…
Assessing the Impact of Social Network Structure on the Diffusion of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): A Generalized Spatial SEIRD Model
Giorgio Fagiolo
In this paper, I study epidemic diffusion in a generalized spatial SEIRD model, where individuals are initially connected in a social or geographical network. As the virus spreads…
Identifying the community structure of the international food-trade multi network
Sofia Torreggiani, Giuseppe Mangioni, Michael J. Puma +1
Achieving international food security requires improved understanding of how international trade networks connect countries around the world through the import-export flows of food…