Hall-Like Transversal Stress and Sandpile Criticality on Real Production Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01561v1
• Date: Sat, 02 May 2026 18:13:32 GMT
• Title: Hall-Like Transversal Stress and Sandpile Criticality on Real Production Networks
• Abstract summary: This paper develops a Hall-Sandpile model of economic instability.<n>It combines a Hall-like stress mechanism with sandpile threshold dynamics on a real production-network substrate.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper develops a Hall-Sandpile model of economic instability that combines a Hall-like transversal stress mechanism with sandpile threshold dynamics on a real production-network substrate. In analogy with the physical Hall effect, where exposed flows under an external field generate stress in a transversal direction, we model economic shocks as fields that act on flow-intensive, low-redundancy, low-capacity nodes and produce systemic stress through a multiplicative conversion function. The accumulated stress drives a discrete toppling rule and an avalanche dynamics whose effective activation threshold declines with transversal exposure. The model is calibrated on annual World Input--Output Database (WIOD) production networks for 2000--2014 and simulated on the 2014 substrate (2{,}283 country--sector nodes) under three alternative propagation normalisations to avoid mechanical near-criticality from row-stochastic operators. Controlled Monte Carlo experiments over external field intensity and redundancy stress generate four ordered regimes: stable absorption, latent fragility, critical transition, and avalanche regime. Mean avalanche size and the probabilities of finite-size systemic events $\Pr(S\!\geq\!5)$, $\Pr(S\!\geq\!10)$ and $\Pr(S\!\geq\!20)$ rise jointly with field intensity and redundancy stress. Tail diagnostics show regime-dependent thickening of the avalanche distribution, but the estimated tail indices remain too high to interpret as evidence of universal power-law criticality. The contribution is therefore a finite-size, real-network description of how transversal stress activates structural fragility, not a claim of self-organised criticality in the global economy.

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