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Hassan Masum (19 December 2004)

In the spirit of a New Year's resolution, consider the character of Econophysics itself. Two attributes of the field stand out: i) the application of careful and (where possible) rigorous modeling and simulation, to ii) questions of socio-economic systems... ...

Brian Arthur's Foreword to the Minority Game Book

Brian Arthur (19 June 2004)

Once in a while a model problem appears that is simple to describe but offers a wealth of lessons. If the model problem is a classic — like the Ising model or the Prisoner’s Dilemma — it both opens up our insight and gives us analytical pathways into an intriguing world. Challet, Marsili and Zhang’s Minority Game problem is such a model. It is a classic ...

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Call for papers: GSTF International Journal of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research (JMSOR) Vol 1 No 2: Call for Papers [URL]

posted by jmsor, 16 November 2012

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Call for papers: Call for Papers in honor of Professor Masanao Aoki

posted by mraddant, 27 August 2012

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Call for papers: Session "Estimating agent based models" at the CFE 2012

posted by mraddant, 13 July 2012

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International Scouting for Tenure-Track Positions 2016 [URL]

posted by saraolson, 23 June 2016

The IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (www.imtlucca.it), one of the five Schools of Excellence in Italy, is collecting expressions of interest for Tenure-Track faculty positions from exceptional candidates of all ranks in: Economics, Management and Data Science...

PhD Scholarships in Economics, Management Science and Data Science at IMT Lucca (Italy) [URL]

posted by saraolson, 10 June 2016

Applications are now being accepted for scholarships for the Economics, Management Science and Data Science (EMDS) curriculum within the 2016/17 PhD program at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (www.imtlucca.it), one of the five Schools of Excellence in Italy. Perspective students should preferably have a master-level background in economics, management science, physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering or in a re...

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) [URL]

posted by giotrix, 20 April 2016

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE at the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), to conduct research in the group led by Professor of the Practice, Christopher L. Magee. Possible areas of investigation will be those compatible with the research needs of ongoing projects within the group....

Research Scientist (Post-Doc) [URL]

posted by mraddant, 03 November 2015

The Institute of Economics at Kiel University is seeking to fill a position for a Research Scientist (at post doctoral level with a 3/4 position on German public pay scale E 14) to contribute to the work within the ongoing research project “Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance: Expectations, Constraints, and Interaction of Agents” funded by the European Commission....

Research Scientist [URL]

posted by mraddant, 03 November 2015

The Institute of Economics at Kiel University is seeking to fill a position for a Research Scientist (at doctoral student level with a 3/4 position on German public pay scale E13) to contribute to the work within the ongoing research project “Financial Distortions and Macroeconomic Performance: Expectations, Constraints, and Interaction of Agents” funded by the European Commission....

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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