Networks provide the foundation for the functioning of our societies and economies. Their study has a long tradition in such fields as engineering, operations research, management science and computer science. More recently, the disciplines of finance and economics have to be rich sources of network-based problems and applications. This volume of contributions from international scholars provides a wealth of innovations in the study of financial and economic networks. graph, the evolutions of financial systems as networks, the incorporation of electronic transactions in international finance...

Despite significant achievements, the discipline of supply chain management is still unable to satisfactorily handle many practical real-world challenges. The authors of Networks Against Time claim that a unified supply chain network analytics framework is needed which should be able to handle optimization and competitive behavior while also maintain relevance to many industrial sectors in which perishable products are prominent, from healthcare to food and from fashion apparel to technology. This Brief provides a wide range of critical supply chain problems which are modeled as generalized...