July

 

Recent Submissions

  • 1. Editorial 
    Kausik Gangopadhyay; Kousik Guhathakurta (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    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. ...
  • 2. Interview with Eugene H. Stanley 
    Kausik Gangopadhyay (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    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 ...
  • 3. Econophysics: An Experimental Course for Advanced Undergraduates in the Nanyang Technological University 
    Siew Ann Cheong (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    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 ...
  • 4. Econophysics: Comments on a Few Applications, Successes, Methods and Models 
    Marcel Ausloos (2013-07)
    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 ...
  • 5. How to Win Acceptance of the Inequality Process as Economics? 
    John Angle (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    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 ...
  • 6. Econophysics Research in India in the Last Two Decades 
    Asim Ghosh (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    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 ...
  • 7. Modelling of Stock Returns and Trading Volume 
    Taisei Kaizoji (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    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 ...
  • 8. Chaotic Synchronization and the Global Economy 
    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 ...
  • 9. Non-linearities in Emerging Financial Markets: Evidence from India 
    Ayan Bhattacharya; Rudra Sensarma (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    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 ...
  • 10. Econophysics and Companies—Statistical Life and Death in Complex Business 
    Kousik Guhathakurta (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    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. ...
  • 11. Econophysics: Background and Applications in Economics, Finance, and Sociophysics 
    Unknown author (Sage Publications, 2013-07)
    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 ...