Econophysics of Markets and Business Networks

Financial Markets.- Uncovering the Internal Structure of the Indian Financial Market: Large Cross-correlation Behavior in the NSE.- Power Exponential Price Returns in Day-ahead Power Exchanges.- Variations in Financial Time Series: Modelling Through Wavelets and Genetic Programming.- Financial Time-series Analysis: a Brief Overview.- Correlations, Delays and Financial Time Series.- Option Pricing with Log-stable Lévy Processes.- Inferring the Composition of a Trader Population in a Financial Market.- Business and Trade Networks.- Dynamical Structure of Behavioral Similarities of the Market Participants in the Foreign Exchange Market.- Weighted Networks at the Polish Market.- The International Trade Network.- Networks of Firms and the Ridge in the Production Space.- Debt-credit Economic Networks of Banks and Firms: the Italian Case.- Econophysicists Collaboration Networks: Empirical Studies and Evolutionary Model.- Income, Stock and Other Market Models.- The Macro Model of the Inequality Process and The Surging Relative Frequency of Large Wage Incomes.- Is Inequality Inevitable in Society? Income Distribution as a Consequence of Resource Flow in Hierarchical Organizations.- Knowledge Sharing and R&D Investment.- Preferences Lower Bound in the Queueing Model.- Kolkata Restaurant Problem as a Generalised El Farol Bar Problem.- Comments and Discussions.- Comments and Criticisms: Econophysics and Sociophysics.

Econophysicists have recently been quite successful in modelling and analyzing various financial systems like trading, banking, stock and other markets. The statistical behavior of the underlying networks in these systems have also been identified and characterized recently. This book reviews the current econophysics researches in the structure and functioning of these complex financial network systems. Leading researchers in the respective fields report on their recent researches and review contemporary developments. The book also includes comment and debate on the latest issues arising out of these.