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Epidemiological modeling of the 2005 French riots: a spreading wave and the role of contagion
Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot, Henri Berestycki, Marie-Aude Depuiset +4
As a large-scale instance of dramatic collective behaviour, the 2005 French riots started in a poor suburb of Paris, then spread in all of France, lasting about three weeks. Remark…
Adoption of Innovations with Contrarians and Repentant Agents
Mirta B. Gordon, M. F. Laguna, S. Goncalves +1
The dynamics of adoption of innovations is an important subject in many fields and areas, like technological development, industrial processes, social behavior, fashion or marketin…
A Model for Scaling in Firms' Size and Growth Rate Distribution
Cornelia Metzig, Mirta B. Gordon
We introduce a simple agent-based model which allows us to analyze three stylized facts: a fat-tailed size distribution of companies, a `tent-shaped' growth rate distribution, the…
Heterogeneous Enterprises in a Macroeconomic Agent-Based Model
Cornelia Metzig, Mirta Gordon
We present a macroeconomic agent-based model that combines several mechanisms operating at the same timescale, while remaining mathematically tractable. It comprises enterprises an…
Entanglement between Demand and Supply in Markets with Bandwagon Goods
Mirta B. Gordon, Jean-Pierre Nadal, Denis Phan +1
Whenever customers' choices (e.g. to buy or not a given good) depend on others choices (cases coined 'positive externalities' or 'bandwagon effect' in the economic literature), the…
Crime and punishment: the economic burden of impunity
Mirta B. Gordon, J. R. Iglesias, Viktoriya Semeshenko +1
Crime is an economically important activity, sometimes called the industry of crime. It may represent a mechanism of wealth distribution but also a social and economic charge becau…