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Stefano Battiston

Stefano Battiston

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
49
Citations
13376
World Ranking
1427
National Ranking
22

Overview

Stefano Battiston is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in research spanning Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their scholarly output includes 87 publications primarily related to these areas, with significant contributions to subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Global and Planetary Change, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Strategy and Management.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Banking Stability, Regulation, Efficiency
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Stefano Battiston demonstrate a focus on the intersection of climate risk, financial stability, and network dynamics:

  • "Climate risks and financial stability," 2021, Journal of Financial Stability
  • "Climate risk and financial stability in the network of banks and investment funds," 2021, Journal of Financial Stability
  • "The physics of financial networks," 2021, Nature Reviews Physics
  • "Accounting for finance is key for climate mitigation pathways," 2021, Science
  • "Network valuation in financial systems," 2020, Mathematical Finance

Their frequent coauthors include Irene Monasterolo, Paolo Barucca, Bas van Ruijven, Alan Roncoroni, and Serafín Martínez-Jaramillo, indicating collaboration across multiple research efforts and topics.

Stefano Battiston's work appears in diverse publication venues, with notable recurring contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (16 publications)
  • Journal of Financial Stability (6 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (3 publications)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (2 publications)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (2 publications)

In addition to journal articles, Stefano Battiston authored a book titled The Role of Green Financial Sector Initiatives in the Low-Carbon Transition: A Theory of Change, published in 2022 by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. This work aligns with their focus on sustainable finance and climate-related economic issues.

Best Publications

  • The network of global corporate control

    Stefania Vitali;James B. Glattfelder;Stefano Battiston

  • Liaisons dangereuses: Increasing connectivity, risk sharing, and systemic risk

    Stefano Battiston;Domenico Delli Gatti;Mauro Gallegati;Bruce C. Greenwald

  • A climate stress-test of the financial system

    Stefano Battiston;Antoine Mandel;Antoine Mandel;Irene Monasterolo;Franziska Schütze

  • DebtRank: Too Central to Fail? Financial Networks, the FED and Systemic Risk

    Stefano Battiston;Michelangelo Puliga;Rahul Kaushik;Paolo Tasca

  • Complexity theory and financial regulation

    Stefano Battiston;J. Doyne Farmer;J. Doyne Farmer;Andreas Flache;Diego Garlaschelli

  • Climate risks and financial stability

    Stefano Battiston;Yannis Dafermos;Irene Monasterolo

  • Credit Chains and Bankruptcy Propagation in Production Networks

    Stefano Battiston;Domenico Delli Gatti;Mauro Gallegati;Bruce Greenwald

  • Default cascades: When does risk diversification increase stability?

    Stefano Battiston;Domenico Delli Gatti;Mauro Gallegati;Bruce C N Greenwald

  • Web search queries can predict stock market volumes.

    Ilaria Bordino;Stefano Battiston;Guido Caldarelli;Guido Caldarelli;Matthieu Cristelli

  • Pathways towards instability in financial networks

    Marco Bardoscia;Stefano Battiston;Fabio Caccioli;Guido Caldarelli

  • The scale-free topology of market investments

    Diego Garlaschelli;Stefano Battiston;Maurizio Castri;Vito D.P. Servedio

  • The price of complexity in financial networks

    Stefano Battiston;Guido Caldarelli;Robert M. May;Tarik Roukny

  • Climate risk and financial stability in the network of banks and investment funds

    Alan Roncoroni;Stefano Battiston;Stefano Battiston;Luis O.L. Escobar-Farfán;Serafin Martinez-Jaramillo

  • The Physics of Financial Networks

    Marco Bardoscia;Paolo Barucca;Stefano Battiston;Fabio Caccioli

  • Default Cascades in Complex Networks: Topology and Systemic Risk

    Tarik Roukny;Hugues Bersini;Hugues Pirotte;Guido Caldarelli

  • Systemic Risk in a Unifying Framework for Cascading Processes on Networks

    Jan Lorenz;Stefano Battiston;Frank Schweitzer

  • Statistical properties of corporate board and director networks

    S. Battiston;M. Catanzaro

  • Backbone of complex networks of corporations: The flow of control

    James Glattfelder;Stefano Battiston

  • DebtRank: A microscopic foundation for shock propagation

    Marco Bardoscia;Stefano Battiston;Fabio Caccioli;Guido Caldarelli

  • A Financial Macro-Network Approach to Climate Policy Evaluation

    Veronika Stolbova;Veronika Stolbova;Irene Monasterolo;Irene Monasterolo;Stefano Battiston;Stefano Battiston

  • Climate Risk and Financial Stability in the Network of Banks and Investment Funds

    Alan Roncoroni;Stefano Battiston;Stefano Battiston;Luis Onésimo Leonardo Escobar Farfàn;Serafin Martinez Jaramillo

  • Pathways towards instability in financial networks

    Guido Caldarelli;Marco Bardoscia;Fabio Caccioli;Stefano Battiston

Frequent Co-Authors

Guido Caldarelli
Guido Caldarelli Ca Foscari University of Venice
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Massimo Riccaboni
Massimo Riccaboni IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Mauro Gallegati
Mauro Gallegati Marche Polytechnic University
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Bas J. van Ruijven
Bas J. van Ruijven International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Robert M. May
Robert M. May University of Oxford
Cars Hommes
Cars Hommes University of Amsterdam
Bruce C. Greenwald
Bruce C. Greenwald Columbia University
Mathew E. Diamond
Mathew E. Diamond International School for Advanced Studies

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