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Decomposition Methods in Analyzing Intra-regional and Inter-regional Income Distribution
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2006)
In this paper we propose to study the world income distribution in the framework of Richard Stone-Richard Goodwin decomposition method [Goodwin, EJ 1949 and JPKE 1980, Stone¿s foreword to Pyatt-Roe, 1977]. The objective ...
A Framework for Testing Algorithmic Trading Strategies
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)
Algorithmic trading and artificial stock markets have generated huge interest not only among brokers and traders in the financial markets but also across various disciplines in the academia. The emergence of algorithmic ...
Limits to Exhilarationism: Revisiting Kaldorian Dynamics
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
It has been argued, in the context of modern economies that there are many margins of compensation that could serve to mask the demand side impact of the deteriorated income distribution. Investment Exhilarationism was ...
Lack of critical slowing down suggests that financial meltdowns are not critical transitions, yet rising variability could signal systemic risk
(Public Library of Science, 2016-01-13)
Complex systems inspired analysis suggests a hypothesis that financial meltdowns are abrupt critical transitions that occur when the system reaches a tipping point. Theoretical and empirical studies on climatic and ecological ...
Economics, politics and democracy in the age of credit-rating capitalism
(Sameeksha Trust, 2013-02-02)
Unlike in earlier major economic crises, the current turmoil in the global economy has seen the consolidation of orthodoxy as the dominant paradigm. This essay traces the political economy of change in the current situation ...
Examining the dynamical transition in the Dow Jones Industrial Index from Bull to Bear market using Recurrence Quantification Analysis
(2012-11-20)
We present evidence of phase transitions (periodic to chaotic and
chaotic to chaotic) in the Dow Jones Industrial Index as it transitions
from Bull to Bear market. There is also evidence of a completely unpredictable
(i.e., ...
Quantitative Risk Estimation in the Credit Default Swap Market using Exteme Value Theory
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010)
This paper is motivated by empirical evidence illustrating the non-Gaussian nature of financial returns, (Jondeau et al 2007) and analyses extreme value theory, (EVT) as a proposed improvement (Embrechts et al., 2005) for ...
Assessing the Empirical Performance of the DSGE models in the lead up to the Crisis
(2013)
The global financial crisis has sparked renewed debate over the state of macroeconomic modeling,
particularly in the lead up to the 2008/2009 Great Recession. The standard workhorse of
macroeconomic modeling, the Dynamic ...
An investigation into the dynamics of financial catastrophe
(Economics Working Paper, 2012)
The paper captures the dynamics of interaction between the real and the
nancial sector in a model of endogenous credit that exhibits multiple
steady states and generates phase transitions with catastrophic abrupt-
ness. ...
Critical transitions in Eurozone sovereign bond markets
(Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2013)
In this paper we present empirical evidence that the sovereign bond markets may have undergone a catastrophic transition during the Eurozone debt crisis. We find evidence of a phenomenon called critical slowing down that ...