“…The failure of a single bank can spread through financial networks, generating default cascades. Over the past few years, many researchers in various fields of natural and social sciences, such as physicists, ecologists and economists, have been addressing the question of how to prevent financial contagion (e.g., Nier et al, 2007, Soramaki et al, 2007, Gai and Kapadia, 2010, Gai et al, 2011, Lenzu and Tedeschi, 2012, Kobayashi, 2013, Kobayashi and Hasui, 2014.…”