This book is a course in methods and models rooted in physics and used in modelling
economic and social phenomena. It covers the discipline of econophysics, which creates an …

We analyse the temporal changes in the cross-correlations of returns on the New York Stock
Exchange. We show that lead–lag relationships between daily returns of stocks vanished in …

This paper considers the Bak—Sneppen (B&S) Self-Organized Criticality model originally
developed for species co-evolution. We focus both on the original application of the model …

This chapter aims at exploring companies' profit maximization in presence of a hierarchical
organization among firms and when technological renewal processes take place. The …

Huge analyses on firms data selected from public available databases accomplished the
task to describe the size and growth of firms through interpolating functions. The structure …

Recently statistical mechanics methods have been used to study several types of complex
systems outside the traditional scope of physics. The idea to apply techniques developed in …

Wide empirical analyses investigated the size and growth rate distribution of business firms,
providing a relevant empirical support to economic theory. We rely on such analyses and on …

We study some consequences of the absence of microscopic reversibility on financial
processes. We analyze high resolution data and find asymmetric time dependent cross …

Il ruolo della tecnologia nelle imprese sta assumendo un peso sempre più rilevante:
qualsiasi impresa, indipendentemente dalle sue dimensioni, deve modernizzare la propria …