Network Structure in UK Payment Flows: Evidence on Economic Interdependencies and Implications for Real-Time Measurement
英国支付流的网络结构:经济相互依赖与实时衡量
Network analysis of inter-industry payment flows reveals structural economic relationships invisible to traditional bilateral measurement approaches, with significant implications for real-time economic monitoring. Analysing 532,346 UK payment records (2017--2024) across 89 industry sectors, we demonstrate that graph-theoretic features which include centrality measures and clustering coefficients improve payment flow forecasting by 8.8 percentage points beyond traditional…