AI RESEARCH
Network Structure in UK Payment Flows: Evidence on Economic Interdependencies and Implications for Real-Time Measurement
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.02068v1 Announce Type: new 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 nstrate that graph-theoretic features which include centrality measures and clustering coefficients improve payment flow forecasting by 8.8%age points beyond traditional time-series methods.