Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1.Joseph A. Schumpeter (1947),'The Creative Response in Economic History', Journal of Economic History, 7 (2), November, 149-59[11] -- 2.Simon A. Herbert (1962), 'The Architecture of Complexity', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 106...

The increasing interconnection between computers through the Internet has emergedthe vision of Application Layer Networks. Application Layer Networks comprise anabstract view on overlay networks (e.g. Peer-to-Peer networks, Grid infrastructures) ontop of the TCP/IP protocol. Their common...

In this paper we present a macroeconomic microfounded framework with heterogeneous agents – households, firms, banks – which interact through a decentralized matching process presenting common features across four markets – goods, labor, credit and deposit. We study the dynamics of the...

In this paper the authors focus on credit connections as a potential source of systemic risk. In particular, they seek to answer the following question: how do we find densely connected subsets of nodes within a credit network? The question is relevant for policy, since these subsets are likely...