Blanco Arroyo, Omar (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)
This thesis aims to quantify the granular size of an economy, i.e., the number of granular firms. Empirically, we find that the contribution of idiosyncratic shocks to gross domestic product (GDP) ...
Pulcini, Cinzia (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)
In this Doctoral thesis we use an Agent- Based Model (ABM) to analyze variables and dynamics of the economy, building a complex system that is very close to the real world behavior. The main aims of ...
Provenzano, Giulia (Date of defense: 2017-09-11)
The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 has demonstrated that the financial system should be regarded as a complex network whose nodes are financial institutions and links are financial dependencies. ...