Sustainability and Econophysics
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2020) | Viewed by 17168
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: econophysics; sociophysics; nonlinear dynamics; nonequilibrium systems; networks; phase transitions; growth (and decay) models; fractals; scientometrics; statistical physics; materials sciences and applied mathematics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to open further thought and lines of research in econophysics, regarding a modern problem facing society, sustainability.
We econophysicists have been used to studying and reporting on financial markets, and on micro- and macro-economic aspects, often looking for scaling properties. However, our modern society is facing many challenges, and, in some sense, most of them are grouped by a word like sustainability.
In so doing, sustainability concerns many different aspects. A few of them are truly, not necessarily fully, already examined by econophysicists. We live in an increasingly risky society, which is particularly vulnerable to extreme types of risk—both market and systemic.
Although I cannot claim to be an expert on sustainability, I am aware of the need to shine some light on and discover research topics that we econophysicists can examine with our modern statistical physics techniques of investigations Semi-analytic formulas have been found to be general enough to be applied to real data analysis in various areas. Complex networks are also studied. The problem of studying economic growth patterns across countries is actually a subject of great interest for economists and econophysicists.
Our research topics might be said to be far away from social concerns, and are only research activities in the sustainability framework; however, when submitting and publishing a paper in this Special Issue, you will become pioneers.
I have listed a few keywords suggesting potential research topics. This is not an exhaustive list. other interesting reports should not been excluded. We might provide new points of view, we might indicate our concerns, and we may present unusual techniques from our statistical physics background.
Last, but not least, this Special Issue is not reserved only for econophysicists. Indeed, we may learn from outside our field.
Prof. Marcel Ausloos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Corporate Structure
- Governance, Foreign Direct Investment
- Growth
- IPO
- Bubbles
- Idea Diffusion
- Accounting Numbers
- Inequality Index
- Corruption
- GRI Standards
- Networks
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Theoretical Methods
- Clusters
- Empirical Approaches
- Resilience
- Financial Performance
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