Economic Evolution, Learning, and Complexity

The twelve papers in this collection grew out of the workshop on "Eco­ nomic Evolution, Learning, and Complexity" held at the University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany on May 23-25, 1997. The Augsburg workshop was the second of two events in the Euroconference Series on Evolutionary Econom...

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Other Authors: Cantner, Uwe (Editor), Hanusch, Horst (Editor), Klepper, Steven (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Oligopoly and Learning
  • 1 Norms as emergent properties of adaptive learning: The case of economic routines
  • 2 An experimental study of adaptive behavior in an oligopolistic market game
  • 3 Horizontal heterogeneity, technological progress and sectoral development
  • II Industry Studies
  • 4 Market share instability and stock price volatility during the industry life cycle: the US automobile industry
  • 5 Knowledge spillovers in biotechnology: sources and incentives
  • 6 Chance, necessity and competitive dynamics in the Italian Steel Industry
  • III Econometric and Empirical Techniques
  • 7 Detecting self-organisational change in economic processes exhibiting logistic growth
  • 8 Modelling growth in economic systems as the outcome of a process of self-organisational change: a fuzzy regression approach
  • 9 Variety and economic development: conceptual issues and measurement problems
  • IV Growth, Human Capital and Innovation
  • 10 Reassessing the empirical validity of the human-capital augmented neoclassical growth model
  • 11 Institutions, entrepreneurship, economic flexibility and growth - experiments on an evolutionary micro-to-macro model
  • V Governmental Learning and Policy
  • 12 Interaction between public policies and technological competition under environmental risks