This dissertation covers the two major parts of my Ph.D. research: i) developing a theoretical framework of complex networks; and ii) applying statistical physics concepts and methods to quantitatively analyze complex systems. In part I, we focus on developing theories of interdependent networks, which includes two chapters: 1) We develop a mathematical framework to study the percolation of int...

electronic payment system in one of the e-banking services and must be reliable and free of security deficiencies in order to overcome traditional system. improving customer’s perceptions of security and trust in the course of electronic payment transactions is vital in order to attract, retain and retrieve users of such a system. this study aimed to investigate the effects of customers’ percep...

This paper refers important issues regarding how to evaluate the security threats of the online banking effectively, a system threat analysis method combining STRIDE threat model and threat tree analysis is proposed, which improves the efficiency of the threat analysis greatly and also has good practicability. By applying this method to the online banking system threat analysis, we construct ST...

We show that a competitive banking system is inconsistent with an optimum quantity of private money. Because bankers cannot commit to their promises and the composition of their assets is not publicly observable, a positive franchise value is required to induce the full convertibility of bank liabilities. Under perfect competition, a positive franchise value can be obtained only if the return o...

The development of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the European Economic Community (EEC), and the collapse of the former communist countries, has caused a urry of international banking, trading and investment activities in the recent years. However, the problem with international banking is that, despite the existence of the US Federal Reserve System, following the Federal Rese...

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