Before revision:   Here we develop an improved reconstruction method , based on statistical mechanics concepts and tailored for bipartite market networks. Technically, our approach consists in the preliminary estimation of connection probabilities by maximum-entropy inference driven by entities capitalizations and link density, followed by a density-corrected gravity model to assign position weights. Our method is successfully tested on NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX filing data, by correctly reproducing the network topology and providing reliable estimates of systemic riskover the market .
After revision:  Here we develop an improved reconstruction method , based on statistical mechanics concepts and tailored for bipartite financial networks. Such a procedure enhances the traditional capital-asset pricing model (CAPM) and allows to reproduce the correct topology of the network. We test the method on a dataset, collected by the European Central Bank, of detailed security holdings of European institutional sectors over a period of six years (2009-2015). Our approach outperforms the traditional CAPM and the recently proposed MECAPM both in reproducing the network topology and providing reliable estimates of systemic riskover the market .