Ole Peters delivered a set of lectures on economics at the complex systems winter school in Mohali, India. The lectures were based on notes, co-authored with Alex Adamou, that will form the basis for future lecture courses. Read more →
Ole Peters and Alex Adamou have written a paper titled Rational insurance with linear utility and perfect information. Here they consider the insurance puzzle, namely that people are willing to buy insurance at a price Read more →
Ole Peters and Alex Adamou have written a paper titled The evolutionary advantage of cooperation. Here they show how the simple and universal setting of noisy multiplicative growth predicts the formation of cooperating units Read more →
Together with co-authors with Anna Deluca and Álvaro Corral, Nicholas has studied the predictability of thresholded events in rain data and the Manna model. Specifically, a running hazard function is used as a decision variable Read more →
Together with co-authors Francesc Font-Clos, Gunnar Pruessner and Anna Deluca, Nicholas has studied the effect of thresholding on birth-death processes. The exact distribution of the duration time above threshold can be computed. Read more →
Nicholas R. Moloney and Joern Davidsen have an article in Physical Review E on their analysis of extreme bursts in the solar wind: Read more →
Ole Peters’ and Murray Gell-Mann’s manuscript is now available as SFI working paper 14-05-013 and on the arXiv at http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0585 The paper presents the foundations of a possible new Read more →
The paper by Ole Peters and Bill Klein is published in Physical Review Letters. It takes issue with the common but false assumption of ergodicity — the equality of time averages and expectation values Read more →
Ronald Dickman, Nicholas Moloney and Eduardo Altmann analyse an information-theoretic model for communication (introduced by Ferrer i Cancho and Solé), building on previous work by Read more →
Ole Peters’ Gresham lecture “Time, for a change” is now available online (audio, video, transcript). Some highlights from the lecture that may clarify a few comments we’ve received: Read more →
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