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Director of CRABE (Center for Research on Adaptive Behavior in
Economics) received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1991.
She held a position at McGill University between 1991-1993 and since
1993 she has been at Simon Fraser University. In addition, she has held
a number of visiting positions at the universities and other
institutions in US and Europe.
Her area of research interest has been focused on modeling learning in a
variety of economic environments and testing different behavioral
assumptions by conducting experiments with human subjects. She has done
a number of experiments in macroeconomic environments, including models
of the exchange rate and models that examine the role of various
monetary rules. Two other areas of her research are focused on
developing models of adaptive behavior in repeated games and behavioral
models for mechanism design (provision of public goods, auctions,
internet trading etc.) and testing them in the experiments with human
subjects. Together with colleagues from California Institute of
Technology, she has recently initiated a Turing tournament, a method for
evaluating models of human behavior in social sciences
(http://turing.ssel.caltech.edu). She is finishing a manuscript of a
book whose emphasis is on evolutionary models in macroeconomic
environments.
Cars Hommes obtained his Ph-D in Mathematical Economics in 1991 at the University of Groningen. Since 1999,
he is professor of Economic Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam, and director of the Centre for Nonlinear
Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF). Cars Hommes is one of the editors of the Journal of Economic Dynamics
and Control. His research includes nonlinear dynamics, evolutionary dynamics, behavioral economics and finance,
and experimental economics. Recently, he has been working on developing theory of heterogeneous agent models as
well as their empirical and experimental testing.
Axel Stig Bengt Leijonhufvud was born in Sweden. He came to the United
States in 1960 to do graduate work and obtained his Ph.D. from
Northwestern University. He taught at the University of California at
Los Angeles from 1964 to 1994 and served repeatedly as Chairman of the
Economics Department. In 1991, he started the Center for Computable
Economics at UCLA and remained its Director until 1997. In 1995 he was
appointed Professor of Monetary Theory and Policy at the University of
Trento, Italy. His research has particularly dealt with the limits to an
economy's ability to coordinate activities as revealed by great
depressions, high inflations and (recently) transitions from socialist
towards market economies.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Lux is Professor of Monetary Economics and International Finance at the Institute of Economics, Christian-Albrechts-University
of Kiel and Director of Doctoral Program in "Quantitative Economics" (since 2002) at the Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences,
University of Kiel.
The research of Professor Lux and his group concentrates on theoretical and empirical aspect of financial markets and monetary economics.
The major focus of their research has been on behavioral, agent-based models of financial markets. Thomas Lux has published one of the first
papers on applications of statistical mechanics to economics in 1995 in the Economic Journal and has elaborated on this subject in his
subsequent research. Together with Michele Marchesi he is co-author of a widely quoted paper on microscopic market simulations published
in Nature 397, 1999. It was shown in this paper, that the universal statistical characteristics of financial returns
(fat tails and clustering volatility) can be generated as emergent phenomena from the interaction of heterogeneous agents in a
prototype artificial market. He has also published widely on various topics in empirical finance. His ongoing research includes
theoretical analyses of financial market models with heterogeneous agents, learning of economic agents via artificial intelligence
methods as well as research in empirical finance (on multi-fractal cascades as a new model of volatility). These research interests
have stimulated a number of interdisciplinary collaborations with computer scientists and physicists in the emerging fields of computational
economics and agent-based modeling.
Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé holds the Centenary Chair in Financial Mathematics at
the University of Leeds, a joint post between the Business School and the
School of Mathematics. After receiving a PhD in Mathematics from the University
of Bremen in 1996, he taught at the Universities of Bielefeld, Zurich and
Copenhagen. His research interests are in finance, economics and applied
mathematics, with a particular focus on evolutionary models of financial
markets. He and Thorsten Hens are currently editing the volume "Evolution and
Dynamics of Financial Markets" for the North-Holland/Elsevier Handbook in
Finance series.
Shyam Sunder is James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance at Yale University. He was educated at the Indian Railways
Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Yale in 1999, he has taught at the
University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, Carnegie Mellon University, and has been a visiting professor at the Indian Institute
of Management at Ahmedabad, University of Arizona, University of British Columbia, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, among others.
His research interests include experimental finance and experimental macro-economics, and structural economics.
Enrico Zaninotto is professor of Business Economics at the University of
Trento. He was educated at the University of Venice and at the Catholic
University of Louvain la Neuve. He joined the University of Trento in
1994, after the University of Venice and the University L. Bocconi of
Milan. At the University of Trento he leaded the Rock, group of Research
on Organisation, Coordination and Knowledge.
He published papers on production theory, standard diffusion and
modularization. Current research is focussed on two main topics:
coordination theory and entrepreneurship and firm dynamics.
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