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Dispersion in macroeconomic volatility between the core and periphery of the international trade network
(Elsevier, 2018-03)
At the country level, macroeconomic volatility tends to correlate with trade openness although
the direction of correlation is not stable across samples. Higher openness allows
for greater diversification opportunities, ...
Emergence of distributed coordination in the Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem with finite information
(Elseveir, 2017)
In this paper, we study a large-scale distributed coordination problem and propose efficient adaptive strategies to solve the problem. The basic problem is to allocate finite number of resources to individual agents in the ...
Stochastic Lotka-Volterra equations: a model of lagged diffusion of technology in an interconnected world
(Elsevier, 2016)
We present a model of technological evolution due to interaction between multiple countries and the resultant effects on the corresponding macro variables. The world consists of a set of economies where some countries are ...
"Hits" emerge through self-organized coordination in collective response of free agents
(American Physical Society, 2016)
Individuals in free societies frequently exhibit striking coordination when making independent decisions en masse. Examples include the regular appearance of hit products or memes with substantially higher popularity ...
Improving server utilization in a distributed computing set-up with independent clients
(2018)
We consider a set-up in which there are multiple servers and multiple clients in a large distributed
computing system. Clients request servers to process jobs. Servers can only process one job in unit time.
There is no ...
Absence of economic and social constants
(Springer, 2016)
In this article, we discuss the possibility of economics as a
discipline emulating the success of hard sciences. In our view, a fundamental obstacle arises from the fact that economics does not have
(m)any stable and ...
Productivity dispersion and output fluctuations: an evolutionary model
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)
We develop a model of technology choice with search costs. Innovators develop technology of varying quality or productivity. Firms acquire technology after paying a search cost to find high productivity technology. The ...
Cross-correlation patterns in social opinion formation with sequential data
(Elsevier B.V., 2016)
Recent research on large-scale internet data suggests existence of patterns in the collective behavior of billions of people even though each of them may pursue own activities. In this paper, we interpret online rating ...
Self-organization in a distributed coordination game through heuristic rules
(Springer, 2016)
In this paper, we consider a distributed coordination game played by a large number of agents
with finite information sets, which characterizes emergence of a single dominant attribute out of a large
number of competitors. ...
Indian call centres and business process outsourcing: a study in union formation
(2009-04-15)
In this exploratory study of union formation in the Indian call
centre/business process outsourcing sector, the authors draw
upon evidence from the first detailed survey of members of the
recently formed UNITES, and ...