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Quantifying the Impact of Leveraging and Diversification on Systemic Risk
Paolo Tasca, Pavlin Mavrodiev, Frank Schweitzer
Excessive leverage, i.e. the abuse of debt financing, is considered one of the primary factors in the default of financial institutions. Systemic risk results from correlations bet…
Social Resilience in Online Communities: The Autopsy of Friendster
David Garcia, Pavlin Mavrodiev, Frank Schweitzer
We empirically analyze five online communities: Friendster, Livejournal, Facebook, Orkut, Myspace, to identify causes for the decline of social networks. We define social resilienc…
Quantifying the effects of social influence
Pavlin Mavrodiev, Claudio J. Tessone, Frank Schweitzer
How do humans respond to indirect social influence when making decisions? We analysed an experiment where subjects had to repeatedly guess the correct answer to factual questions,…