Economic Evolution and Demographic Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Formal Models in Economics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A chaotic process with slow feed back: The case of business cycles

      • Tönu Puu

      Pages 3-34

   3. Nonlinear Interactions in the Economy

      • Erik Mosekilde, Jesper Skovhus Thomsen, John Sterman

      Pages 35-61

   4. Fast and Slow Processes of Economic Evolution

      • Åke E. Andersson

      Pages 62-74

   5. A stochastic model of technological evolution

      • W. Ebeling, M. A. Jiménez-Montaño, E. Bruckner, A. Scharnhorst

      Pages 75-95

   6. Evolution of Production Processes

      • Klaus G. Troitzsch

      Pages 96-114

   7. Innovation Diffusion through Schumpeterian Competition

      • Michael Sonis

      Pages 115-140

   8. Nonlinear Threshold Dynamics: Further Examples for Chaos in Social Sciences

      • Gustav Feichtinger

      Pages 141-154

3. Formal Models in Geography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Geography, Physics and Synergetics

      • Denise Pumain

      Pages 157-175

   3. Chaotic Behaviour in Spatial Systems and Forecasting

      • Günther Haag

      Pages 176-191

   4. Model Identification for Estimating Missing Values in Space-Time Data Series: Monthly Inflation in the US Urban System, 1977–1990

      • Daniel A. Griffith

      Pages 192-218

   5. Explanation of Residential Segregation in one City. The Case of Cologne

      • Jörg Blasius

      Pages 219-233

   6. Determinants of Remigrant Behavior: An Application of the Grouped Cox Model

      • Beatrix Brecht

      Pages 234-254

4. Formal Models in Demography

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255

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   2. Birth Control as a Social Dilemma

      • Ulrich Mueller

      Pages 257-282

   3. Sex-Ratio, divorce, and labor force participation — An analysis of international aggregate data

      • Andreas Diekmann

      Pages 283-293

   4. Some Aspects of Competing Risks in Demography

      • Harald Schmidbauer

      Pages 294-305

   5. Dynamic Structural Equations in Discrete and Continuous Time

      • Hermann Singer

      Pages 306-320

The articles collected in this volume have two features in common: they wantto integrate economics, demography and geography, and they want to overcome the stationary approach in modelling in favour of a dynamic one. The book is subdivided into three parts, where Part I is focussing on economic evolution, Part II on geographical development and Part III is related to demographic change. The present volume aims at providing a new look at this triangle in view of the classical background of discussions by introducing new research ideas focussing in nonlinear dynamics and stochastic modelling. Thus the main purpose of this book is to make a contribution to the interdisciplinary work needed to integrate the effortsbetween these three research fields and to serve as a research source in demonstrating the current state of art in dynamic modelling. The book isaddressed to social scientists in general, and those in particular with a background in economics, geographics and demographics. It should also be of interest to mathematicians, physicists, and systems analysts interested in model building and applications of nonlinear dynamics.

• Bevölkerung
• Bevölkerungsökonomie
• demographic change
• demography
• economic evolution
• economics
• modeling
• nichtlineare Dynamik
• nonlinear dynamics
• population
• Ökonomie
• ökonomische Evolution

• II. Institut f. Theoretische Physik, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  Günter Haag

• Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen (ZUMA), Mannheim, Germany

  Ulrich Mueller

• Institut für Sozialwissenschaftliche Informatik, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

  Klaus G. Troitzsch

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