All ebooks in the collection "Contributions to Economics" - Physica

The Economics of Online Markets and ICT Networks

Russel Cooper , Ashley Lloyd , Gary Madden , Michael Schipp

Building new business on the most recent version of the Web is no longer a multi-million dollar undertaking. Start-up companies are leveraging a decade of innovation of technology, driven by entrepreneurs not financiers. Past lessons led to new service that provides a...

Agent-Based Computational Modelling

Francesco C. Billari , Thomas Fent , Alexia Prskawetz , Jürgen Scheffran

Ifo Survey Data in Business Cycle and Monetary Policy Analysis

Jan-Egbert Sturm , Timo Wollmershäuser

A pilot ?ying to a distant city needs to check his position, ?ight path and weather conditions, and must constantly keep his plane under control to land safely.TheIfosurveydataprovideadvanceinformationonchangingeconomic weather conditions and help keep the economy under...

Pension Systems

Birgit Mattil

Recently, policy debate and comparative research on old-age pensions have focused on the financial sustainability of pension systems in the face of demographic change. This study, however, also takes into account distributional effects involved in pension system...