FINET: Financial Networks

Welcome to Financial Networks

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. critically analyse and explain complex financial systems based on empirical observations.
2. select and justify appropriate network analytics techniques for specific financial network tasks.
3. implement network analytics methods to uncover insights into financial behaviours and dynamics.
4. evaluate how network structures influence financial performance and risk, interpreting the implications for various financial scenarios.
5. present highly interdisciplinary work in an understandable and comprehensive manner to people with different backgrounds.

Course Outline

What if you could predict how a financial crisis unfolds before it even begins? In this course, you will dive into the networks that shape the financial world, discovering how connections between institutions, markets, and people drive it. Rather than focusing on individual entities, you will explore the web of relationships influencing everything from financial contagions to the rise and fall of cryptocurrencies, and spending behaviour. Through practical examples, you will build a toolkit for analysing complex financial systems. Whether you are interested in banking, digital finance, or economic policy, this course offers fresh insights into finance.