Purpose The study explores the role of accounting technologies government (ATGs) associated with UK Tax Credits and their impact on claimants' motivations, behaviour identities. aim this is to deepen empirical conceptual understandings how ATGs tax authorities transform claimants into “entrepreneurs self”. Design/methodology/approach authors approach (TC) as a case examine articulate operationa...

Markets can show different types of dynamics, from quiet markets dominated by one or few products, to markets with constant penetration of new products. This paper explores the dynamics of markets from a psychological perspective using a multi-agent simulation model. The behavioural rules of the artificial consumers, the consumats, are based on a conceptual meta-theory from psychology. The arti...

Rules limiting insider trading may encourage investment, but they may also discourage exploration of new less-decentralized corporate information processes, such as prediction and decision markets. I review standard corporate information processes and insider trading rules, outline possible improvements that prediction markets might offer, and consider ways we might change insider trading rules...

Markets can show di€erent types of dynamics, from quiet markets dominated by one or few products, to markets with constant penetration of new and reintroduced products. This paper explores the dynamics of markets from a psychological perspective using a multi-agent simulation model. The behavioural rules of the arti®cial consumers, the consumats, are based on a conceptual meta-theory from psych...

This editorial introduces a new open collection in Globalization and Health on the topic of the future of health markets. In 2012, we undertook work for the Rockefeller Foundation that sought to inform their future investments in health markets. Whereas health markets are sometimes viewed solely through the lens of private health care providers, our approach was broader, viewing such providers ...

This paper presents a market microstructure model, which investigates the behavior dynamics in financial markets. We are especially interested in examining whether the markets’ behavior is nonstationary, because this implies that strategies from the past cannot be applied to future time periods, unless they have co-evolved with the markets. In order to test this, we employ Genetic Programming, ...