Scaling laws in the macroeconomy

Publisher:
World Scientific
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
Advances in Complex Systems, 2008, 11 (1), pp. 131 - 138
Issue Date:
2008-01
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The practice of detecting power laws and scaling behaviors in economics and finance has gained momentum in the last few years, due to the increased use of concepts and methods first developed in statistical physics. Some disappointment has emerged in the economic profession, however, as regards the models proposed so far to theoretically explain these phenomena. In this paper we aim to address this criticism, showing that scaling behaviors can naturally emerge in a multiagent system with optimizing interacting units characterized by financial fragility
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