Bankruptcy as an exit mechanism for systems with a variable number of components

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 344, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 8-13

  Gatti, Domenico Delli ^a   Di Guilmi, Corrado ^b   Gaffeo, Edoardo ^c   Gallegati, Mauro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Econophysics; Power law

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANK PROTECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

BANKRUPTCY; ECONOPHYSICS; LAPLASE DISTRIBUTION; POWER LAW;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 5444242818     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.06.079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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