• openAccess   A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Growth and Profit Rate Distribution: The Spanish Case 

      Vidal-Tomás, David; Ruiz-Buforn, Alba; Blanco Arroyo, Omar; Alfarano, Simone MDPI (2022-03-14)
      We analyse the time evolution of the empirical cross-sectional distribution of firms’ profit and growth rates. In particular, we analyse the conditional properties of the empirical distributions depending on the size of ...
    • openAccess   A Nonparametric approach to the noise density in stochastic volatility models 

      Alfarano, Simone; Wagner, Friedrich; Milakovic, Mishael Taylor & Francis (2008-09)
      We propose a nonparametric method to determine the functional form of the noise density in discrete-time stochastic volatility models of financial returns. Our approach suggests that the assumption of Gaussian noise is ...
    • closedAccess   A note on institutional hierarchy and volatility in financial markets 

      Alfarano, Simone; Raddant, Matthias; Milakovic, Mishael Taylor & Francis (2012)
      From a statistical point of view, the prevalence of non-Gaussian distributions in financial returns and their volatilities shows that the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) often does not apply in financial markets. In this ...
    • closedAccess   A note on institutional hierarchy and volatility in financial markets 

      Alfarano, Simone; Milakovic, Mishael; Raddant, Matthias Taylor & Francis (2011-01)
      From a statistical point of view, the prevalence of non-Gaussian distributions in financial returns and their volatilities shows that the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) often does not apply in financial markets. In this ...
    • openAccess   A spectral perspective on excess volatility 

      Livan, Giacomo; Alfarano, Simone; Milakovic, Mishael; Scalas, Enrico Taylor & Francis (2015)
      We perform a rather careful spectral analysis of the correlation structures observed in real and financial returns for a large pool of long-lived US corporations, and find that financial returns are characterized by strong ...
    • openAccess   A statistical equilibrium model of competitive firms 

      Alfarano, Simone; Milakovic, Mishael; Irle, Albrecht; Kauschke, Jonas Elsevier (2012-01)
      We find that the empirical density of firm profit rates, measured as returns on assets, is markedly non-Gaussian and reasonably well described by an exponential power (or Subbotin) distribution. We start from a statistical ...
    • openAccess   Advances in the agent-based modeling of economic and social behavior 

      Steinbacher, Mitja; Raddant, Matthias; Karimi, Fariba; Camacho Cuena, Eva; Alfarano, Simone; Iori, Giulia; Lux, Thomas Springer (2021)
      In this review we discuss advances in the agent-based modeling of economic and social systems. We show the state of the art of the heuristic design of agents and how behavioral economics and laboratory experiments have ...
    • openAccess   Alternative approaches for the reformulation of economics 

      Alfarano, Simone; Camacho Cuena, Eva; Tedeschi, Gabriele Springer (2019-01)
      In the last decades most of advanced and developing economies have undertaken adeep structural transformation. This profound structural change, caused by the tran-sition from a manufacturing economy to a service-based one, ...
    • openAccess   An agent-based early warning indicator for financial market instability 

      Vidal-Tomás, David; Alfarano, Simone Springer (2019-11-21)
      Inspired by the Bank of America Merrill Lynch global breath rule, we propose an investor sentiment index based on the collective movement of stock prices in a given market. We show that the time evolution of the sentiment ...
    • openAccess   Banking sector concentration, credit shocks and aggregate fluctuations 

      Alfarano, Simone; Blanco Arroyo, Omar Elsevier (2022-07-14)
      This paper studies whether the raise in concentration experienced by the Spanish banking sector has lead to the increase of bank-specific credit shocks contribution to aggregate credit. We decompose aggregate credit ...
    • openAccess   Base analítica y guía de utilización de los programas de ordenador «basicis-lm» e «islm-oada» 

      Albert Ortiz, José Miguel; Alfarano, Simone; Teglio, Andrea Universitat Jaume I (2012)
    • openAccess   Credit allocation and the financial crisis: evidence from Spanish companies 

      Petrovic, Marko; Teglio, Andrea; Alfarano, Simone Springer (2022-08-18)
      The worldwide financial crisis of 2007–2008 raised serious concerns about the soundness of banks’ activities and about the extent to which banking regulation should supervise banks’ investment decisions. We contribute to ...
    • openAccess   Dataset: Overweighting of public information in financial markets: A lesson from the lab 

      Ruiz-Buforn, Alba; Camacho Cuena, Eva; MORONE, ANDREA; Alfarano, Simone (2021-08-18)
    • closedAccess   Der dichte Kern des Netzwerks deutscher Aufsichtsräte und Unternehmensvorstände 

      Milakovic, Mishael; Alfarano, Simone; Lux, Thomas Springer-Verlag (2012-11)
      In a previous study the authors have identified a small core of directors who are both highly central to the entire network of German corporate boards as well as closely connected among themselves. In this note the authors ...
    • closedAccess   Does classical competition explain the statistical features of firm growth? 

      Alfarano, Simone; Milakovic, Mishael Elsevier (2008)
      We propose a statistical equilibrium model where the tendency for competition to equalize profit rates results in an exponential power (or Subbotin) distribution. The model supports and extends recent evidence on the Laplace ...
    • openAccess   Empresas granulares y desagregación regional: un análisis del caso español 

      Blanco Arroyo, Omar; Ruiz-Buforn, Alba; Vidal-Tomás, David; Alfarano, Simone Universidad de Almería (2019)
      Following the approach proposed by Gabaix (2011), this paper aims to assess the existence of granularity in the business cycle fluctuations of the following Spanish regions: the Community of Madrid, Catalonia, the Basque ...
    • closedAccess   Exploiting ergodicity in forecasts of corporate profitability 

      Mundt, Philipp; Alfarano, Simone; Milakovic, Mishael Elsevier (2019-12-13)
      Theory suggests that competition tends to equalize profit rates through the process of capital reallocation, and numerous studies have confirmed that profit rates are indeed persistent and mean-reverting. Recent empirical ...
    • openAccess   Extreme value theory as a theoretical background for power law behavior 

      Alfarano, Simone; Lux, Thomas Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2010)
      Power law behavior has been recognized to be a pervasive feature of many phenomena in natural and social sciences. While immense research efforts have been devoted to the analysis of behavioral mechanisms responsible for ...
    • closedAccess   Financial power laws: Empirical evidence, models, and mechanisms 

      Lux, Thomas; Alfarano, Simone Elsevier (2016-07)
      Financial markets (share markets, foreign exchange markets and others) are all characterized by a number of universal power laws. The most prominent example is the ubiquitous finding of a robust, approximately cubic power ...
    • closedAccess   Firm profitability and the network of organizational capabilities 

      Wagner, Friedrich; Milakovic, Mishael; Alfarano, Simone Elsevier (2010)
      A Laplace distribution for firm profit rates (or returns on assets) can be obtained through the sum of many independent shocks if the number of shocks is Poisson distributed. Interpreting this as a linear chain of events, ...