While economics is a study of social system, physics is a science devoted to unraveling the mysteries of Nature. Econophysics, as the name suggests, is a new science which attempts a marriage of these apparently odd partners. ...
Dr Eugene H. Stanley (1941–) is one of the most influenc-ing figures in the discipline of Econophysics. He was born in Oklahoma City, US, and was awarded the PhD in physics at Harvard University.1 In 1976 he joined Boston ...
In this article, I have described an experimental econophysics course for advanced undergraduates in the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. This course was offered for the first time in Semester II ...
For this special issue, the article aims at discussing a few econophysics problems studied so far rather successfully. The following ‘applications’ in micro-econophysics are considered: (i) financial crashes; it is emphasized ...
The Inequality Process (IP) is a particle system model similar to that of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. The IP is a parsimonious model of competition among people for wealth. The IP explains a wide scope of stable patterns ...
We discuss here researches on econophysics done in India in the last two decades. The term ‘econophysics’ was formally coined in India (Kolkata) in 1995. Since then many research papers, books, reviews, etc., have been ...
In this study, we investigate the statistical properties of the returns and the trading volume. We show a typical example of power-law distributions of the return and of the trading volume. Next, we propose an interacting-agent ...
Ralph Abraham; Michael Nivala(Sage Publications, 2013-07)
A brief introductory article on the role of chaotic synchronization in the context of complex economic systems. The basic framework developed by the late Richard Goodwin in his book, Chaotic Economic Dynamics, of 1990 has ...
Efficiency and predictability of financial markets are inherently linked to the statistical properties of market indicators. While many papers have researched non-linearities in developed financial markets, this article ...
As economies undergo institutional transition, firms change their internationalization strategies to take advantage of the prevailing institutional environment of the time. Extant studies on firm internationalization have ...
Sebastian M. P.; Supriya K. K.(Sage Publications, 2013-01)
Governments and public sector organizations around the globe are relying on information and communication technologies (ICTs) to reform the functioning of the system and provide better service delivery mechanisms for their ...
Payal S. Kapoor; Jayasimha K. R.; Ashish Sadh(Sage Publications, 2013-01)
Social media has a lot to offer to the marketers in the form of a ‘web of brand-related-conversations’. With the popularity of social media, users indulge in ‘eword-of-mouth’ (eWOM) behaviour while interacting with other ...
Sponsorships have not been subjected to extensive research in an emerging economy like India, till date, which is considered virgin in terms of sponsorship research. Having this in mind, the article focuses on mapping ...
While the term ‘econophysics’ is relatively new having been coined in the 1990s by the famous physicist Eugene Stanley, there are already quite a few books that deal with some aspects or the other of this new discipline. ...
Econophysics: Background and Applications in Economics, Finance, and Sociophysics is a collection of 10 chapters by six different contributors. The first part of the book consisting of two chapters lays down the philosophy ...
Nandakumar M. K.; Saptarshi Purkayastha(Sage Publications, 2013-01)
Organizations in emerging economies are gaining greater relevance in the global economy and they exert a significant influence on organizations from developed economies (Khanna & Palepu, 2006). Resource accumulation process ...
In India, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has gained significant importance due to opening up of domestic economy as a result of globalization. However, a review of literature revealed that not many papers are available which ...