this study assumes areas between the central zagros region and central plateau of to play an important role in the shaping social and economic complexity and the formation of urban infrastructure during the late chalcolithic period of the region. regarding the issue an archaeological survey conducted in the area, 39 sites were identified and were archaeologically analyzed. for spatial data anal...

Econometric Reviews Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713597248 Entropy-Based Moment Selection in the Presence of Weak Identification Alastair R. Hall ab; Atsushi Inoue bc; Changmock Shin d a University of Manchester, Manchester, UK b North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA ...

The recent upswing in the popularity of economic applications of `networks' may be attributed to the relative e ciency of network theory in analyzing complex economic structures with much more clarity compared to any other (standard) methods used by economists. Having said that, it can hardly be denied that most of the network-based economic models su er from lack of availability of `ready-to-u...

The Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy is a far reaching dynamical generalization of Shannon entropy of information systems. This entropy works perfectly for probability measure preserving (p.m.p.) transformations. However, it is not useful when there is no finite invariant measure. There are certain successful extensions of the notion of entropy to infinite measure spaces, or transformations with ...

In this communication, some economic models given by functional mappings are addressed. These are models for random markets where agents trade by pairs and exchange their money in a random and conservative way. They display the exponential wealth distribution as asymptotic equilibrium, independently of the effectiveness of the transactions and of the limitation of the total wealth. Also, the en...

The purpose of this short paper dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Prof.Constantin Tsallis is to show how the use of mathematical tools and physical concepts introduced by Burr, L˙ evy and Tsallis open a new line of analysis of the old problem of non-Debye decay and universality of relaxation. We also show how a finite characteristic time scale can be expressed in terms of a q-expectation usi...

An effort is made to introduce thermodynamic and statistical thermodynamic methods into the treatment of nonphysical (e.g., social, economic, etc.) systems. Emphasis is placed on the use of the entire thermodynamic framework, not merely entropy. Entropy arises naturally, related in a simple manner to other measurables, but does not occupy a primary position in the theory. However, the maximum e...