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physics.soc-ph2026

Resilient-to-Fragile Transition and Excess Volatility in Supply Chain Networks

David Martin, José Moran, Debabrata Panja +1

We study a production network in which firms use non-substitutable (Leontief) inputs, hold precautionary inventories and face idiosyncratic productivity shocks, with adjustment occ…

physics.soc-ph2025

A differentiable model of supply-chain shocks

Saad Hamid, José Moran, Luca Mungo +2

Modelling how shocks propagate in supply chains is an increasingly important challenge in economics. Its relevance has been highlighted in recent years by events such as Covid-19 a…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 20 cited

Timeliness criticality in complex systems

José Moran, Matthijs Romeijnders, Pierre Le Doussal +4

In complex systems, external parameters often determine the phase in which the system operates, i.e., its macroscopic behavior. For nearly a century, statistical physics has extens…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 6 cited

Critical fragility in socio-technical systems

José Moran, Frank P. Pijpers, Utz Weitzel +2

Socio-technical systems, where technological and human elements interact in a goal-oriented manner, provide important functional support to our societies. Here we draw attention to…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 1 cited

From Ants to Fishing Vessels: A Simple Model for Herding and Exploitation of Finite Resources

José Moran, Antoine Fosset, Alan Kirman +1

We analyse the dynamics of fishing vessels with different home ports in an area where these vessels, in choosing where to fish, are influenced by their own experience in the past a…

physics.soc-ph2020

Schrödinger's ants: A continuous description of Kirman's recruitment model

José Moran, Antoine Fosset, Michael Benzaquen +1

We show how the approach to equilibrium in Kirman's ants model can be fully characterized in terms of the spectrum of a Schrödinger equation with a Pöschl-Teller () potenti…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 75 cited

May's Instability in Large Economies

José Moran, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Will a large economy be stable? Building on Robert May's original argument for large ecosystems, we conjecture that evolutionary and behavioural forces conspire to drive the econom…