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Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (09 January 2009)

Compared to physics, it seems fair to say that the quantitative success of the economic sciences is disappointing. Rockets fly to the moon, energy is extracted from minute changes of atomic mass without major havoc, global positioning satellites help millions of people to find their way home. What is the flagship achievement of economics, apart from its recurrent inability to predict and avert crises, including the current worldwide credit crunch? ...

Fribourg Symposium

Yi-Cheng Zhang and Damien Challet (16 October 2008)

Last November we had an exciting gathering of many people who are/were physicists or other natural scientists but are working in finance, insurance and related sectors -- an occasion built upon the so-called econophysics community that brought together both academics and practitioners in an intimate encounter. ...

News

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Call for papers: ECONOFIS'14 - 2nd call (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) [URL]

posted by econofis, 21 July 2014

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Announcement: Econophysics Colloquium 2014 [URL]

posted by liaohao, 07 March 2014

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Call for papers: Paper submissions for ENEC International Conference 2014 is now open! [URL]

posted by enec, 10 December 2013

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Current & future events

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11 Dec 18 - COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018
04 Feb 19 - Winter Workshop on Complex Systems 2019

Job openings

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Lecturer (Teaching Assistant) - Kiel Univeristy [URL]

posted by mraddant, 19 July 2017

The Department of Economics at Kiel University is searching to fill the position of a Lecturer (Teaching Assistant) with special teaching responsibilities ...

PhD Scholarships at IMT Lucca [URL]

posted by saraolson, 27 June 2017

Applications are now being accepted for the 2017/18 PhD program at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (www.imtlucca.it), one of the six Schools of Excellence in Italy and one of the highest rated graduate schools in Europe according to the most recent E-Multirank survey. Highly motivated candidates from all disciplines are invited to apply for one of the 36 fully-funded scholarships within a doctoral program that integrates scientific competences of economics, engineering, computer science, neur...

Post-doc in Science of Conflict (Alan Turing Institute) [URL]

posted by weisiguo, 14 June 2017

THE ROLE...

Post-doc in Network Science Models of Critical Infrastructures (Alan Turing Institute) [URL]

posted by weisiguo, 14 June 2017

THE ROLE...

Post-doc in agent-based modelling of algorithmic finance [URL]

posted by cbo.mpp@cbs.dk, 05 May 2017

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a post-doc position at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy. The position is connected to the research project ‘Algorithmic Finance: Inquiring into the Reshaping of Financial Markets’ (AlgoFinance), led by Professor Christian Borch. The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) through a Consolidator Grant. The post-doc position is a 24 months, non-tenured full research position. The expected starting date is 1 September 2017....

Recent blog posts

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Papers

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Priority Attachment: a Universal Mechanism for Generating Networks

Mikołaj Morzy, Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Przemysław Kazienko, Grzegorz Miebs, Arkadiusz Rusin

posted by matus, 11 January 2018

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Scale-free networks are rare

Anna D. Broido, Aaron Clauset

posted by matus, 11 January 2018

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Failure of incentives in multiplex networks

Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg, Dirk Helbing