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An evolutionary model of long tailed distributions in the social sciences
R. Alexander Bentley, Paul Ormerod, Michael Batty
Studies of collective human behavior in the social sciences, often grounded in details of actions by individuals, have much to offer `social' models from the physical sciences conc…
Tradition versus fashion in consumer choice
R. Alexander Bentley, P. Ormerod
Evidence is growing that in many markets consumers select not simply on the basis of the perceived attributes of products, but their preferences are modified by the behaviour of ot…
Shelf space strategy in long-tail markets
R. Alexander Bentley, Paul Ormerod, Mark E. Madsen
The Internet is known to have had a powerful impact on on-line retailer strategies in markets characterised by long-tail distribution of sales. Such retailers can exploit the long…
The evolution of EU business cycle synchronisation 1981-2007
Paul Ormerod
Most of the analytical techniques used in the business cycle synchronisation literature rely upon the estimation of an empirical correlation matrix of time series data of macroecon…
Random matrix theory and the evolution of business cycle synchronisation 1886-2006
Paul Ormerod
The major study by Bordo and Helbing (2003) analyses the business cycle in Western economies 1881-2001. They examine four distinct periods in economic history, and conclude that th…
Global recessions as a cascade phenomenon with heterogenous, interacting agents
Paul Ormerod
I examine global recessions as a cascade phenomenon. In other words, how recessions arising in one or more countries might percolate across a network of connected economies. A hete…