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Title

Economic complexity : non-linear dynamics, multi-agents economies, and learning / editors, William A. Barnett, Christophe Deissenberg, Gustav Feichtinger.

Author

COMPLEXITY2000 (2000 : Aix-en-Provence, France)

Publication

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Barnett, William A.
• Deissenberg, Christophe
• Feichtinger, Gustav, 1940-

Description

xxiv, 467 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

The last fifteen or twenty years have been marked by fundamental advances in the sources of complex behavior in micro- and macro-economics, in the practical and methodological implications of such behavior, and in the methods and tools appropriate to cope with them. Much of these developments have been driven by the recognition and acceptance by economists of approaches initiated in other fields - such as non-linear dynamics, statistical physics, network theory, biology, computer science, and the use of computational methods as problem-solving tools - giving rise to important and innovative impulses to economic thinking. The sixteen papers in this book -- the fourteenth volume in the series International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics - reflect from various perspectives this recent evolution. They are the outgrow from a selection of communications presented at the COMPLEXITY2000 workshop held in Aix en Provence, France, 4-6 May 2000 - a workshop that brought together, from twenty-two nations, almost seventy economists, mathematicians, biologists and physicists interested in complex phenomena. All papers were strictly refereed in the intended tradition of the series: to provide journal quality collections of research papers of unusual importance in areas of currently highly visible activity within the economics profession. With its selection of articles, the book presents an overview of advanced contributions to complexity in economics and social system, such as chaotic dynamics and multiple equilibria, agent-based models, applications of genetic algorithms, non-equilibrium macro-dynamics, information transmission, learning mechanisms. Although the papers address economic problems, the authorship and the perspectives presented are interdisciplinary and provide therefore a number of innovative insights and solutions to classical or new questions.

Series Statement

International symposia in economic theory and econometrics, 1571-0386 ; 14

Uniform Title

International symposia in economic theory and econometrics 14.

Subject

• Economics, Mathematical > Congresses
• Computational complexity > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Aix-en-Provence (2000)
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "Selection of communications presented at the COMPLEXITY2000 workshop held in Aix en Provence, France, 4-6 May 2000"--Foreword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-455) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. A Simple Growth-Cycle Model Displaying "Sil'nikov Chaos" / L. Piscitelli and M. C. Sportelli -- Ch. 2. Real-Financial Interaction: A Reconsideration of the Blanchard Model with a State-of-Market Dependent Reaction Coefficient / C. Chiarella, P. Flaschel and W. Semmler -- Ch. 3. Complex Remanence vs. Simple Persistence: Are Hysteresis and Unit-Root Processes Observationally Equivalent? / B. Amable, J. Henry, F. Lordon and R. Topol -- Ch. 4. Multiple Equilibria, History Dependence, and Global Dynamics in Intertemporal Optimization Models / C. Deissenberg, G. Feichtinger, W. Semmler and F. Wirl -- Ch. 5. On Information-Contagious Behavior / N. J. Vriend -- Ch. 6. The Origins of the Deadline: Optimizing Communication in Organizations / C. H. Papadimitriou and E. Servan-Schreiber -- Ch. 7. Organization of Innovation in a Multi-unit Firm: Coordinating Adaptive Search on Multiple Rugged Landscapes / M.-H. Chang and J. E. Harrington, Jr. -- Ch. 8. Patterns of Consumption in a Discrete Choice Model with Asymmetric Interactions / G. Iori and V. Koulovassilopoulos -- Ch. 9. Interaction in Aggregate Demand for Investment and Regime Switching / A. Palestrini, D. D. Gatti and M. Gallegati -- Ch. 10. Speculative Bubbles and Fat-Tail Phenomena in a Heterogeneous Agent Model / T. Kaizoji -- Ch. 11. Chaotic Price Instability Implies Benefit for Consumers / A. Matsumoto -- Ch. 12. A Dynamic Non-Tatonnement Macroeconomic Model with Stochastic Rationing / F. Bignami, L. Colombo and G. Weinrich -- Ch. 13. Expectational Leads in Economic Dynamical Systems / V. Bohm and J. Wenzelburger -- Ch. 14. Dynamics of Beliefs and Learning Under a[subscript L]-Processes -- The Homogeneous Case / C. Chiarella and X.-Z. He -- Ch. 15. Genetic Learning of Nash Equilibria in Illicit Drug Markets and Prerequisites for a Successful Crackdown / D. A. Behrens and H. Dawid -- Ch. 16. The Dynamics of the Linear Random Farmer Model / R. Carvalho.

ISBN

0444514333

LCCN

^^2004300725

OCLC

• 53156073
• SCSB-12188928

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library