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Université de Fribourg

Stock fluctuations are correlated and amplified across networks of interlocking directorates

Saavedra, Serguei ; Gilarranz, Luis J ; Rohr, Rudolf P. ; Schnabel, Michael ; Uzzi, Brian ; Bascompte, Jordi

In: EPJ Data Science, 2014, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 30

Traded corporations are required by law to have a majority of outside directors on their board. This requirement allows the existence of directors who sit on the board of two or more corporations at the same time, generating what is commonly known as interlocking directorates. While research has shown that networks of interlocking directorates facilitate the transmission of information between...