New2004: Program

Conference Program

NEW2004 Conference Program

NEW2004 Conference Program

16-17-18 September 2004

Thursday, September 16

9.00-13.00

Registration

9.30-10.30

Opening & Welcome

Plenary Session

Chair: Massimo Salzano

10.30-11.15

Masanao Aoki

New Frameworks for Macroeconomics Modelings: Some Illustrative Examples

11.15-11.45

Coffee Break

11.45-12.30

Sorin Solomon

Emergence of Complex Collective Economic Phenomena from Noisy Elementary Interactions

12.30-13.15

Richard Day

The Complex Problem of Modelling Economic Complexity

13.15-13.30

From the floor

13.30-15.00

Lunch

Plenary Session

Chair Mauro Gallegati

15.00-15.45

Alan Kirman

Interactions in Economics: Aggregate and Individual Rationality

PARALLEL SESSIONS-16 September 2004

		Room 4	Room 7	Room 8
		*Chaos Theory, Bifurcations* *and Economics*	*Economic Policy and Finance*	*Econophysics* *- I -*
Chair		*I. Kubin*	*K. Outterson*	*T. Di Matteo*
15.45	16.15	P. Commendatore	G. Diana	Y. Yegorov
Title		Complex dynamics in a Pasinetti-Solow model of growth and distribution	Robust Control in Monetary Policy Delegation	The Micro Movement of Stock Prices - No Random Walk Down Wallnerstrasse
Discussant		I. Kubin	K. Outterson	T. Di Matteo
16.15	16.45	E. Michetti	M. R. Alfano	C. Artemi
Title		Financial Development and Complex Dynamics in Emerging Markets	Centralization and Decentralization of Public Finance Within A Complexity Context	A possible psycho-physical model to describe some elements of an economy
Discussant		P. Commendatore	G. Diana	Y. Yegorov
16.45	17.15	I. Kubin	K. Outterson	T. Di Matteo
Title		Monopolistic Competition and Macroeconomic Dynamics	Pharmaceutical Arbitrage	Productivity distribution
Discussant		E. Michetti	M. R. Alfano	C. Artemi
17.15	17.30	Coffee Break
		Room 4	Room 7	Room 8
		*Modeling Complex* *Economic Systems* I	*Agent-Based Models*	*Applications, other tools,* *and methodologies*
Chair		*A. Vercelli*	*M. Remondino*	*A. Krawiec*
17.30	18.00	A. De Martino	G. Lima	J. Mimkes
Title		Perceived risk and trend formation in minority games	Financial Fragility as Emergent Dynamics in a Complex System: An Agent-Based Computational Model	Concepts of Thermodynamics in Agent Systems and Networks
Discussant		A. Vercelli	M. Remondino	A. Krawiec
18.00	18.30	D. Parisi	M. Martoccia	E. Perona
Title		Research and competition in a simulated labour market: an evolution model for workers and entrepreneurs	Agent-Based Simulation - An application to the newly restructured Italian electricity market	The confused state of complexity economics: an ontological explanation
Discussant		A. De Martino	G. Lima	J. Mimkes
18.30	19.00	A. Vercelli	M. Remondino	A. Krawiec
Title		Rationality, learning and complexity: from the Homo economicus to the Homo sapiens	Introducing Communication in a Minority Game: An agent based model	Dynamics of knowledge in the economic growth model
Discussant		D. Parisi	M. Martoccia	E. Perona

Friday, September 17

Plenary Session

Chair Alessandro Vercelli

9.30-10.15

David Colander

Complexity, Pedagogy, and the Economics of Muddling Through

10.15-11.00

Joe McCauley

Empirically-Based Market Dynamics: Market Instability

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-12.15

Joe Zbilut

Unresolved Questions Regarding the Use of Recurrence Quantification Analysis
for Economic Time Series

12.15-13.00

Yi-Cheng Zhang

Supply-Demand under Limited Information

13.00-13.15

From the floor

13.30-15.30

Lunch

PARALLEL SESSIONS-17 September 2004

		Room 4	Room 5	Room 7	Room 8
		*Modeling Complex* *Economic Systems* *- II –*	*Heterogeneous Agents’ Simulation* *- I -*	*Econophysics* *- II -*	*Globalization*
Chair		*P. Ormerod*	*T. Bossomaier*	*T. Aste*	*C. Costea*
15.30	16.00	J. Gil-Lafuente	D. Torre	J. Sudhir	E. Pereira
Title		A new application in the treatment for the specific information provided by experts for the selection of sports players	Transition patterns from search to electronic markets: heterogeneous agents and learning	Non-Extensive Statistics and the Dynamics of Financial Markets	Evolutionary Economics: aplication to the case of Aveiro'' Ceramics
Discussant		P. Ormerod	T. Bossomaier	T. Aste	C. Costea
16.00	16.30	M. Grasso	G. Lynch	M. Gallegati	Y. Yegorov
Title		Modeling Sustainable Human Development in a Capability Perspective	Investigations into Schumpeterian Economic Behaviour using Swarm	Business Cycle Fluctuations and Firms'Size Distribution Dynamics	Using the Concept of Field in Space to Explain Socio-Economic Structures and Their Dynamics
Discussant		J. Gil-Lafuente	D. Torre	J. Sudhir	E. Pereira
16.30	17.00	P. Ormerod	T. Bossomaier	T. Aste	C. Costea
Title		Explaining Social and Economic Phenomena by Models with Low or Zero Cognition Agents	Agent Based Modelling of House Prices	Hyperbolic graphs in finance	The globalization - an useful tool to develop real economy in the transition countries
Discussant		M. Grasso	D. Torre	M. Gallegati	Y. Yegorov
20.30		Social Dinner

*Saturday,* *September 18*

PARALLEL SESSIONS-18 September 2004

		Room 4	Room 5	Room 7	Room 8
		*Shadow Economy*	*Complexity and* *Economic Policy* *- II -*	*Financial Market*	*Heterogeneous Agents’ Simulation* *- II –*
Chair		*J. B. Rosser*	*E. Gaffeo*	*A. Sapio*	*M. Gallegati*
9.30	10.00	V. Lipatov	F. Westerhoff	D. Aretina	A. M. Lavezzi
Title		Evolution of Income Tax Evasion	Technical analysis based on price-volume signals and the power of trading breaks	A study of the Romanian commercial banking market	Job Contact Networks, Inequality and Aggregate Output
Discussant		J. B. Rosser	E. Gaffeo	A. Sapio	M. Gallegati
10.00	10.30	R. Dell'Anno	P. Janos	L. Vacha	G. Nota
Title		Shadow Economy in three Mediterranean Countries: France, Spain and Greece. A MIMIC Approach	The Cluster Theory of Economics	Dynamical Agents' Strategies and the Fractal Market Hypothesis	Workflow Monitoring in the Virtual Enterprise Environment
Discussant		V. Lipatov	F. Westerhoff	D. Aretina	A. M. Lavezzi
10.30	11.00	J. B. Rosser	E. Gaffeo	A. Sapio	M. Gallegati
Title		Income Inequality, Corruption, and the Non-Observed Economy: A Global Perspective	The apprentice wizard: monetary policy in a complex world	On the Distribution of Log-Returns in Electricity Markets	Complex Dynamics and Empirical Evidence
Discussant		R. Dell'Anno	P. Janos	L. Vacha	G. Nota
11.00	11.30	Coffee Break
		Room 4	Room 5	Room 7	Room 8
		*Applications,* *tools, and* *methodologies* *- II -*	*Recurrence Analysis*	*Chaotic Control &* *Targeting*	*Oral Posters’* *Presentation*
Chair		*P. McAdam*	*F. Strozzi*	*R. Meucci*	*B. Herzog*
11.30	12.00	A. Krawiec	V. Kallinterakis	D. Marino	B. Dallas
Title		Scientometric analysis of growth of knowledge	Herding Behaviour and Complex Dynamics	Fluctuations, Complexity and Regional Policy	The Primary and Secondary Precursors to Mathematical Formulations in Dynamic Games
Discussant		P. McAdam	F. Strozzi	R. Meucci
12.00	12.30	M. Squillante	M. Faggini	A. Kern	B. Herzog
Title		Quasi-arithmetic means and stochastic dominance	Visual Recurrence Analysis: an application to economic time series	Effects of control of stable and chaotic, economics	Fiscal-Monetary Interaction in a Complex Framwork: Focus on the European Monetary Union and the Stability and Growth Pact
Discussant		A. Krawiec	V. Kallintekakis	D. Marino
12.30	13.00	P. McAdam	F. Strozzi	R. Meucci	M. Fragetta
Title		Forecasting Inflation with Thick Models and Neural Networks	Supply Chain Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms	Synchronization in coupled and free homoclinic chaotic systems	Complexity and Simulation: a Survey
Discussant		M. Squillante	M. Faggini	A. Kern
13.00	13.30	Closing Ceremony
13.30		Light Lunch