Economic Evolution, Learning, and Complexity

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Uwe Cantner, Horst Hanusch, Steven Klepper

      Pages 1-10

3. Oligopoly and Learning

   1. Norms as emergent properties of adaptive learning: The case of economic routines

      • Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Bassanini, Marco Valente

      Pages 11-32

   2. An experimental study of adaptive behavior in an oligopolistic market game

      • Rosemarie Nagel, Nicolaas J. Vriend

      Pages 33-71

   3. Horizontal heterogeneity, technological progress and sectoral development

      • Uwe Cantner, Horst Hanusch, Andreas Pyka

      Pages 73-96

4. Industry Studies

   1. Market share instability and stock price volatility during the industry life-cycle: the US automobile industry

      • Mariana Mazzucato, Willi Semmler

      Pages 97-126

   2. Knowledge spillovers in biotechnology: sources and incentives

      • David B. Audretsch, Paula E. Stephan

      Pages 127-137

   3. Chance, necessity and competitive dynamics in the Italian Steel Industry

      • John S. Metcalfe, Mario Calderini

      Pages 139-157

5. Econometric and Emprirical Techniques

   1. Detecting self-organisational change in economic processes exhibiting logistic growth

      • John Foster, Phillip Wild

      Pages 159-183

   2. Modelling growth in economic systems as the outcome of a process of self-organisational change: a fuzzy regression approach

      • Bryan Morgan, John Foster

      Pages 185-207

   3. Variety and economic development: conceptual issues and measurement problems•

      • Koen Frenken, Pier Paolo Saviotti, Michel Trommetter

      Pages 209-244

6. Econometric and Emprirical Techniques

   1. Reassessing the empirical validity of the human-capital augmented neoclassical growth model

      • Elias Dinopoulos, Peter Thompson

      Pages 245-264

   2. Institutions, entrepreneurship, economic flexibility and growth - experiments on an evolutionary micro-to-macro model

      • Gunnar Eliasson, Erol Taymaz

      Pages 265-286

7. Econometric and Emprirical Techniques

   1. Interaction between public policies and technological competition under environmental risks

      • Gilbert Laffond, Jacques Lesourne, François Moreau

      Pages 287-312

The twelve papers in this collection grew out of the workshop on "Eco­ nomic Evolution, Learning, and Complexity" held at the University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany on May 23-25, 1997. The Augsburg workshop was the second of two events in the Euroconference Series on Evolutionary Economics, the first of which was held in Athens, Greece in September 1993. A special issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Econo­ mics (1993(4)) edited by Yannis Katsoulacos on "Evolutionary and Neo­ classical Perspectives on Market Structure and Economic Growth" con­ tains selected papers from the Athens conference. The Athens conference explored neoclassical and evolutionary perspectives on technological competition and increasing returns. It helped to identify the dis­ tinguishing features of evolutionary scholarship. The Augsburg workshop was more oriented toward exploring methodological issues in evolutiona­ of the papers employed new me­ ry and related scholarship. A number thods, such as genetic programming and experimental analysis, some developed new econometric techniques or raised new empirical issues in evolutionary economics, and some relied on simulation techniques. Twelve papers covering a range of areas were selected for this collection. The papers address central issues in evolutionary and Schumpeterian accounts of industrial competition, learning, and innovation.

• Economic Evolution
• Entwicklungsökonomie
• Growth
• Schumpeter
• Simulation
• competition
• complexity
• econometrics
• economics
• evolutionary economics
• experimental economics
• instability
• modeling
• regression
• volatility

• WISO-Fakultät, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

  Uwe Cantner, Horst Hanusch

• Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Steven Klepper

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