We performed a comprehensive time series segmentation study on the 36 Nikkei Japanese industry indices from 1 January 1996 to 11 June 2010. From the temporal distributions of the clustered segments, we found that the Japanese economy never fully recovered from the extended 1997-2003 crisis, and...

The authors performed a comprehensive time series segmentation study on the 36 Nikkei Japanese industry indices from 1 January 1996 to 11 June 2010. From the temporal distributions of the clustered segments, we found that the Japanese economy never fully recovered from the extended 1997-2003...

To investigate whether diversification within a supply chain can help middlemen firms survive prolonged financial crises, we simulated an extension of the dynamical supply chain network model by Mizgier et al. (2012) under normal and crisis economic conditions. In these simulations, firms in the...