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Cascading failures: dynamics, stability and control

Optimization and Control 2023-07-06 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We develop a dynamic model of cascading failures in a financial network whereby cross-holdings are viewed as feedback, external assets investments as inputs and failure penalties as static nonlinearities. We provide sufficient milder and stronger conditions for the system to be a positive one, and study equilibrium points and stability. Stability implies absence of cascades and convergence of market values to constant values. We provide a constructive method for control design to obtain stabilizing market investments in the form of feedback-feedforward control inputs.

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@article{arxiv.2305.00838,
  title  = {Cascading failures: dynamics, stability and control},
  author = {Stefanny Ramirez and Maaike Odijk and Dario Bauso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.00838},
  year   = {2023}
}
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