July

 

Recent Submissions

  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...