From Physics to Econophysics and Back: Methods and Insights
Author: Siew Ann Cheong
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2022-07-06
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 2889765199
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Introduction to Econophysics
Author: Rosario N. Mantegna
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-11-13
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1139431226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book concerns the use of concepts from statistical physics in the description of financial systems. The authors illustrate the scaling concepts used in probability theory, critical phenomena, and fully developed turbulent fluids. These concepts are then applied to financial time series. The authors also present a stochastic model that displays several of the statistical properties observed in empirical data. Statistical physics concepts such as stochastic dynamics, short- and long-range correlations, self-similarity and scaling permit an understanding of the global behaviour of economic systems without first having to work out a detailed microscopic description of the system. Physicists will find the application of statistical physics concepts to economic systems interesting. Economists and workers in the financial world will find useful the presentation of empirical analysis methods and well-formulated theoretical tools that might help describe systems composed of a huge number of interacting subsystems.
New Directions in Statistical Physics
Author: Luc T. Wille
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 3662089688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a unique insight into the latest breakthroughs in a consistent manner, at a level accessible to undergraduates, yet with enough attention to the theory and computation to satisfy the professional researcher Statistical physics addresses the study and understanding of systems with many degrees of freedom. As such it has a rich and varied history, with applications to thermodynamics, magnetic phase transitions, and order/disorder transformations, to name just a few. However, the tools of statistical physics can be profitably used to investigate any system with a large number of components. Thus, recent years have seen these methods applied in many unexpected directions, three of which are the main focus of this volume. These applications have been remarkably successful and have enriched the financial, biological, and engineering literature. Although reported in the physics literature, the results tend to be scattered and the underlying unity of the field overlooked.
Econophysics and Companies
Author: Hideaki Aoyama
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107403482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconophysics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that takes advantage of the concepts and methods of statistical physics to analyse economic phenomena. This book expands the explanatory scope of econophysics to the real economy by using methods from statistical physics to analyse the success and failure of companies. Using large data sets of companies and income-earners in Japan and Europe, a distinguished team of researchers show how these methods allow us to analyse companies, from huge corporations to small firms, as heterogeneous agents interacting at multiple layers of complex networks. They then show how successful this approach is in explaining a wide range of recent findings relating to the dynamics of companies. With mathematics kept to a minimum, the book is not only a lively introduction to the field of econophysics but also provides fresh insights into company behaviour.
Econophysics and Physical Economics
Author: Peter Richmond
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0199674701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book summarises progress in the understanding of financial markets and economics based on the established methodology of statistical physics. It offers a new approach to the fundamentals of economics that offers the potential for increased insight and understanding. It should be of interest to all serious students of the subject.
Econophysics
Author: Sitabhra Sinha
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-12-06
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 3527408150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFilling the gap for an up-to-date textbook in this relatively new interdisciplinary research field, this volume provides readers with a thorough and comprehensive introduction. Based on extensive teaching experience, it includes numerous worked examples and highlights in special biographical boxes some of the most outstanding personalities and their contributions to both physics and economics. The whole is rounded off by several appendices containing important background material.
Econophysics
Author: Gheorghe Savoiu
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 0124046266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe remarkable evolution of econophysics research has brought the deep synthesis of ideas derived from economics and physics to subjects as diverse as education, banking, finance, and the administration of large institutions. The original papers in this collection present a broad summary of these advances, written by interdisciplinary specialists. Included are studies on subjects in the development of econophysics; on the perspectives offered by econophysics on large problems in economics and finance, including the 2008-9 financial crisis; and on higher education and group decision making. The introductions and insights they provide will benefit everyone interested in applications of this new transdisciplinary science. Ten papers present an updated version of the origins, issues, and applications of econophysics Economics and finance chapters consider lessons learned from the 2008-9 financial crisis Sociophysics chapters propose new thinking on educational reforms and group decision making
Soft Machines
Author: Richard Anthony Lewis Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0198528558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information but is their vision realistic? 'Soft Machines' explains why the nanoworld is so different to the macro-world that we are all familar with and shows how it has more in common with biology than conventional engineering.
Econophysics of Stock and other Markets
Author: Arnab Chatterjee
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-12-31
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 8847005027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReviews the econophysics researches on the fluctuations in stock, forex and other markets. Including some historical perspectives as well as some comments and debates on issues in econophysics research, this book also discusses the statistical modeling of markets, using various agent-based game theoretical approaches, and their scaling analysis.
Scale Invariance and Beyond
Author: B. Dubrulle
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-09
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 3662097990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an excellent introduction to the concept of scale invariance, which is a growing field of research with wide applications. It describes where and how symmetry under scale transformation (and its various forms of partial breakdown) can be used to analyze solutions of a problem without the need to explicitly solve it. The first part gives descriptions of tools and concepts; the second is devoted to recent attempts to go beyond the invariance or symmetry breaking, to discuss causes and consequences, and to extract useful information about the system. Examples are carefully worked out in fields as diverse as condensed matter physics, population dynamics, earthquake physics, turbulence, cosmology and finance.
