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The increasing urbanization process we have been witnessing in the last decades is accompanied by a significant increase in traffic congestion in cities around the world. The effect of the congestion is represented in the enormous time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-01 Nimrod Serok , Shlomo Havlin , Efrat Blumenfeld Lieberthal

The decision process requires information about the present state of the system, but in economy acquiring data and processing them is an expensive and time consuming process. Therefore the state of the system is measured and announced at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-09-21 Janusz Miskiewicz

This study investigates the economic complexity of Indian states by constructing a state-industry bipartite network using firm-level data on registered companies and their paid-up capital. We compute the Economic Complexity Index and apply…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-21 Joel M Thomas , Abhijit Chakraborty

Economic complexity reflects the amount of knowledge that is embedded in the productive structure of an economy. It resides on the premise of hidden capabilities - fundamental endowments underlying the productive structure. In general,…

Ever since the web began, the number of websites has been growing exponentially. These websites cover an ever-increasing range of online services that fill a variety of social and economic functions across a growing range of industries. Yet…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Paul X. McCarthy , Xian Gong , Sina Eghbal , Daniel S. Falster , Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Technological improvement is the most important cause of long-term economic growth. We study the effects of technology improvement in the setting of a production network, in which each producer buys input goods and converts them to other…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-09-13 James McNerney , Charles Savoie , Francesco Caravelli , Vasco M. Carvalho , J. Doyne Farmer

Quantifying the spatial organization of human settlements is fundamental to understanding the complexity of urban systems. However, the quantitative patterns of the distribution of villages, towns, and cities that lie between random and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-06 Lei Dong

Our computational economic analysis investigates the relationship between inequality, mobility and the financial accumulation process. Extending the baseline model by Levy et al., we characterise the economic process through stylised return…

General Economics · Economics 2020-02-20 Simone Righi , Yuri Biondi

Cities and metropolitan areas are major drivers of creativity and innovation in all possible sectors: scientific, technological, social, artistic, etc. The critical concentration and proximity of diverse mindsets and opportunities,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-07 Matteo Straccamore , Vittorio Loreto , Pietro Gravino

The evolution of complexity has been a central theme for Biology [2] and Artificial Life research [1]. It is generally agreed that complexity has increased in our universe, giving way to life, multi-cellularity, societies, and systems of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-09-06 Carlos Gershenson , Tom Lenaerts

This paper is mainly devoted to lay an empirical foundation for further research on complex spatial dynamics of two-population interaction. Based on the US population census data, a rural and urban population interaction model is developed.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-14 Yanguang Chen , Feng Xu

In this work we characterize sudden increases in the land price of certain urban areas, a phenomenon causing gentrification, via an extended Schelling model. An initial price rise forces some of the disadvantaged inhabitants out of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-06 Diego Ortega , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Elka Korutcheva

Existence theory in economics is usually in real domains such as the findings of chaotic trajectories in models of economic growth, tatonnement, or overlapping generations models. Computational examples, however, sometimes converge rapidly…

General Economics · Economics 2022-11-07 Richard H. Day , Oleg V. Pavlov

We perform a large scale analysis of a list of fintech terms in (i) news and blogs in English language and (ii) professional descriptions of companies operating in many countries. The occurrence and co-occurrence of fintech terms and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-26 Fabio Ciulla , Rosario N. Mantegna

Great cities connect people; failed cities isolate people. Despite the fundamental importance of physical, face-to-face social-ties in the functioning of cities, these connectivity networks are not explicitly observed in their entirety.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-21 Aaron Sim , Sophia N Yaliraki , Mauricio Barahona , Michael P H Stumpf

The growth of business firms is an example of a system of complex interacting units that resembles complex interacting systems in nature such as earthquakes. Remarkably, work in econophysics has provided evidence that the statistical…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2019-01-30 Nathan C. Frey , Sakib Matin , H. Eugene Stanley , Michael Salinger

It is hard to exaggerate the role of economic aggregators -- functions that summarize numerous and / or heterogeneous data -- in economic models since the early XX$^{th}$ century. In many cases, as witnessed by the pioneering works of Cobb…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-01-03 Richard Nock , Nicolas Sanz , Fred Celimene , Frank Nielsen

A dynamical model for the distribution of resources between competing agents is studied. While global competition leads to the accumulation of all the resources by a single agent, local competition allows for a wider resource distribution.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-10-31 Damian H. Zanette

I explore the concept of growth being rooted in the recombination of existing technology as an explanation for the remarkable growth witnessed during the Industrial Revolution as it was recently proposed by Koppl et al.(2023). I adapt their…

General Economics · Economics 2024-10-01 W. Benedikt Schmal

Cities are complex systems, their complexity manifests itself through fractality of their spatial structures and by power law distributions (scaling) of multiple urban attributes. Here we report on the previously unreported manifestation of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-02-03 Tomasz F. Stepinski , Anna Dmowska