Search Results - "Farmer, J Doyne"
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Stability analysis of financial contagion due to overlapping portfolios
Published in Journal of banking & finance (01-09-2014)“…Common asset holdings are widely believed to have been the primary vector of contagion in the recent financial crisis. We develop a network approach to the…”
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Supply and demand shocks in the COVID-19 pandemic: an industry and occupation perspective
Published in Oxford review of economic policy (01-01-2020)“…Abstract We provide quantitative predictions of first-order supply and demand shocks for the US economy associated with the COVID-19 pandemic at the level of…”
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Complex dynamics in learning complicated games
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-01-2013)“…Game theory is the standard tool used to model strategic interactions in evolutionary biology and social science. Traditionally, game theory studies the…”
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How production networks amplify economic growth
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-01-2022)“…Technological improvement is the most important cause of long-term economic growth. In standard growth models, technology is treated in the aggregate, but an…”
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To bail-out or to bail-in? Answers from an agent-based model
Published in Journal of economic dynamics & control (01-01-2015)“…Since the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis almost half a trillion euros have been spent to financially assist EU member states in taxpayer-funded…”
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The prevalence of chaotic dynamics in games with many players
Published in Scientific reports (20-03-2018)“…We study adaptive learning in a typical p-player game. The payoffs of the games are randomly generated and then held fixed. The strategies of the players…”
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Statistical basis for predicting technological progress
Published in PloS one (28-02-2013)“…Forecasting technological progress is of great interest to engineers, policy makers, and private investors. Several models have been proposed for predicting…”
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Building an alliance to map global supply networks
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (20-10-2023)“…New firm-level data can inform policy-making The global economy consists of more than 300 million firms, connected through an estimated 13 billion supply links…”
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Role of design complexity in technology improvement
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (31-05-2011)“…We study a simple model for the evolution of the cost (or more generally the performance) of a technology or production process. The technology can be…”
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Interpreting economic complexity
Published in Science advances (01-01-2019)“…Two network measures known as the economic complexity index (ECI) and product complexity index (PCI) have provided important insights into patterns of economic…”
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Getting at Systemic Risk via an Agent-Based Model of the Housing Market
Published in The American economic review (01-05-2012)“…Systemic risk must include the housing market, though economists have not generally focused on it. We begin construction of an agent-based model of the housing…”
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Historical costs of coal-fired electricity and implications for the future
Published in Energy policy (01-06-2011)“…We study the cost of coal-fired electricity in the United States between 1882 and 2006 by decomposing it in terms of the price of coal, transportation cost,…”
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Valuing the Future and Discounting in Random Environments: A Review
Published in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) (01-04-2022)“…We address the process of discounting in random environments, which allows valuation of the future in economic terms. We review several approaches to the…”
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The Predictive Power of Zero Intelligence in Financial Markets
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-02-2005)“…Standard models in economics stress the role of intelligent agents who maximize utility. However, there may be situations where constraints imposed by market…”
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Best reply structure and equilibrium convergence in generic games
Published in Science advances (01-02-2019)“…Game theory is widely used to model interacting biological and social systems. In some situations, players may converge to an equilibrium, e.g., a Nash…”
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A simulation of the insurance industry: the problem of risk model homogeneity
Published in Journal of economic interaction and coordination (01-04-2022)“…We develop an agent-based simulation of the catastrophe insurance and reinsurance industry and use it to study the problem of risk model homogeneity. The model…”
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A complex systems approach to constructing better models for managing financial markets and the economy
Published in The European physical journal. ST, Special topics (01-11-2012)“…We outline a vision for an ambitious program to understand the economy and financial markets as a complex evolving system of coupled networks of interacting…”
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How predictable is technological progress?
Published in Research policy (01-04-2016)“…•A generalized version of Moore's law for unit costs is modelled as a correlated geometric random walk with drift.•We study 53 technologies from different…”
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The economy needs agent-based modelling
Published in Nature (London) (06-08-2009)“…The leaders of the world are flying the economy by the seat of their pants, say J. Doyne Farmer and Duncan Foley. There is, however, a better way to help guide…”
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Discounting the Distant Future: What Do Historical Bond Prices Imply about the Long-Term Discount Rate?
Published in Mathematics (Basel) (01-03-2024)“…We present a thorough empirical study on real interest rates by also including risk aversion through the introduction of the market price of risk. From the…”
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