In the face of the financial crisis, many policymakers felt abandoned by conventional economic tools. Serious limitations of existing economic and financial models immediately became apparent. Arbitrage broke down, markets froze and market participants were gripped by panic. Macro models failed to predict the crisis and seemed unable to deal with extreme situations and out-of-equilibrium dynamics. Complex systems offer a new view on macroeconomic and financial phenomena where non-linear feedbacks and collective behavior play an important role.
The conference™s aim is to bring together researchers and policymakers to deepen our understanding of macroeconomic and financial systems by using methods for complex systems developed in other fields, such as physics, engineering and biology, and to identify more efficient approaches for financial authorities and central banks to pursue their macroeconomic and financial stability goals.
Andy Haldane (Bank of England), Doyne Farmer (Santa Fe Institute) and Cars Hommes (CeNDEF, University of Amsterdam) have confirmed their participation.
The organizers welcome theoretical and applied papers from a variety of areas and disciplines. Potential topics include:
- Heterogenous agent-based models of the financial sector
- Network topology and financial stability
- Models of expectation formation and herding
- Integration of financial systems and the macro-economy
- Financial design and regulation
- Critical transitions and early warning systems
- Contagion and measurement of systemic risk
The conference will be co-organized with the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF).
The Call for Papers is attached below.
Organizing Committee
Wilko Bolt, Maria Demertzis, Maarten van Oordt and Gita Gajapersad.