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Encompassing the current research on the topic, this volume illustrates instances of theoretical nonlinear dynamical systems in economics, finance and the social sciences. Topics covered include structural change and economic growth, and economic policy.

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Over the last two decades there has been a great deal of research into nonlinear dynamic models in economics, finance and the social sciences. This book contains twenty papers that range over very recent applications in these areas. Topics covered include structural change and economic growth, disequilibrium dynamics and economic policy as well as models with boundedly rational agents. The book illustrates some of the most recent research tools in this area and will be of interest to economists working in economic dynamics and to mathematicians interested in seeing ideas from nonlinear dynamics and complexity theory applied to the economic sciences.

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Transferring Negative Externalities: Feedback Effects of Self-Protection Choices in a Two-Hemispheres Model.- Structural Change, Economic Growth and Environmental Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents.- Bifurcations and Chaotic Attractors in an Overlapping Generations Model with Negative Environmental Externalities.- Stock Dynamics in Stage Structured Multi-agent Fisheries.- International Environmental Agreement.- R&D Cooperation in Real Option Game Analysis.- Unifying Cournot and Stackelberg Action in a Dynamic Setting.- Issues on Strategy-Switching Dynamics.- R&D Public Expenditure, Knowledge Spillovers and Agglomeration.- Dynamics in Non-binding Procurement Auctions with Boundedly Rational Bidders.- Delay Differential Nonlinear Economic Models.- Imperfect Competition, Learning and Fluctuations.- Persistent Disequilibrium Dynamics and Economic Policy.- On the Transition Dynamics in Endogenous Recominant Growth Models.- Political Accountability - A Stochastical Control Approach.- Behavioral Portfolio Choice and Disappointment Aversion - An Analytical Solution with Small Risks.- A Simple Agent-Based Financial Market Model.- Global Bifurcations in a Three-Dimensional Financial Model of ´Bull and Bear´ Interactions.- A Framework for CAPM with Heterogeneous Beliefs.- Optimal Monetary Policy for Commercial Banks Involving Lending Rates Setting and Defaults Rates?

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From the reviews: "Covering a wide range of economic applications, the book is especially useful as a source of inspiration for new ideas and research themes, as well as a repository of methodological references on the analysis of different kinds of dynamical systems ... . the book is specially interesting for researchers in economics and in the social sciences who want to approach and explore the field of applications of non linear dynamics, who are looking for ideas to develop new papers in this field ... ." (Segismundo S. Izquierdo, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 13 (3), 2010)

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