Business fluctuations in a credit-network economy

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 370, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 68-74

  Delli Gatti, Domenico ^a   Gallegati, Mauro ^b   Greenwald, Bruce ^c   Russo, Alberto ^b   Stiglitz, Joseph E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy avalanches; Business fluctuations; Network economy

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; PUBLIC POLICY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BANKRUPTCY AVALANCHES; BUSINESS FLUCTUATIONS; NETWORK ECONOMY;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 33747374105     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2006.04.115     Document Type: Article

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