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The articles collected in this volume have two features incommon: they wantto integrate economics, demography andgeography, and they want to overcome the stationary approachin modelling in favour of a dynamic one. The book issubdivided into three parts, where Part I is focussing oneconomic evolution, Part II on geographical development andPart III is related to demographic change. The presentvolume aims at providing a new look at this triangle in viewof the classical background of discussions by introducingnew research ideas focussing in nonlinear dynamics andstochastic modelling. Thus the main purpose of this book isto make a contribution to the interdisciplinary work neededto integrate the effortsbetween these three research fieldsand to serve as a research source in demonstrating thecurrent state of art in dynamic modelling.The book isaddressed to social scientists in general, andthose in particular with a background in economics,geographics and demographics. It should also be of interestto mathematicians, physicists, and systems analystsinterested in model building and applications of nonlineardynamics.
Sommario
I Formal Models in Economics.- 1 A chaotic process with slow feed back: The case of business cycles.- 2 Nonlinear Interactions in the Economy.- 3 Fast and Slow Processes of Economic Evolution.- 4 A stochastic model of technological evolution.- 5 Evolution of Production Processes.- 6 Innovation Diffusion through Schumpeterian Competition.- 7 Nonlinear Threshold Dynamics: Further Examples for Chaos in Social Sciences.- II Formal Models in Geography.- 8 Geography Physics and Synergetics.- 9 Chaotic Behaviour in Spatial Systems and Forecasting.- 10 Model Identification for Estimating Missing Values in Space-Time Data Series: Monthly Inflation in the US Urban System, 1977-1990.- 11 Explanation of Residential Segregation in one City. The Case of Cologne.- 12 Determinants of Remigrant Behavior: An Application of the Grouped Cox Model.- III Formal Models in Demography.- 13 Birth Control as a Social Dilemma.- 14 Sex-Ratio, divorce, and labor force participation - An analysis of international aggregate data.- 15 Some Aspects of Competing Risks in Demography.- 16 Dynamic Structural Equations in Discrete and Continuous Time.- 17 Recursive Probability Estimators for Count Data.- 18 A Mathematical Model for Behavioral Changes by Pair Interactions.- 19 Employment and Education as Non-Linear Network-Populations, Part I: Theory, Categorization and Methodology.- 20 Employment and Education as Non-Linear Network Populations Part II: Model Structures, Estimations, and Scenarios.
