PAPERS
The economics of social stratification in premodern societies
2012 | PAPERS, PUBLICATIONSRobert Rowthorn, Ricardo Andrés Guzmán and Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2011. ABSTRACT We present a microeconomic model of social strati cation, which includes an endogenous fertility component. In ...
Diversity emerging: from competitive exclusion to neutral coexistence in ecosystems
2011 | PAPERS, PUBLICATIONSJuan E. Keymer, Miguel Angel Fuentes and Pablo A. Marquet. Theoretical Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s12080-011-0138-9, 2011. ABSTRACT In this communication, we present a unifying framework to understand the emergence and ...
Beneficial effects of human altruism
2011 | PAPERS, PUBLICATIONSMariana Lozada, Paola D'Adamo and Miguel Angel Fuentes. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 289, 12–16, 2011. ABSTRACT In this work we review converging evidence from several lines of research which ...
Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources
2010 | PAPERS, PUBLICATIONSStefan Gelcich, Terry P. Hughesb, Per Olsson, Carl Folke, Omar Defeo, Miriam Fernández, Simon Foale, Lance H. Gunderson, Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert, Marten Schefferi, Robert S. Steneckj, and Juan ...
The Neolithic Revolution from a price-theoretic perspective
2010 | PAPERS, PUBLICATIONSRicardo Andrés Guzmán and Jacob Weisdorf. Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 96, N°2, pp. 209-219, 2011. ABSTRACT The adoption of agriculture during the Neolithic period triggered the first demographic ...
Product variety and the demographic transition
2009 | PAPERS, PUBLICATIONSRicardo Andrés Guzmán and Jacob Weisdorf. Economics Letters, Vol. 107, N°1, pp. 74–76, 2010. ABSTRACT Why does the rate of population growth decline in the face of economic growth? ...
Universal Behavior of Extreme Price Movements in Stock Markets
2009 | PAPERS, PUBLICATIONSMiguel A. Fuentes, Austin Gerig and Javier Vicente. PLoS ONE, 4, 12, e8243, 2009. ABSTRACT Many studies assume stock prices follow a random process known as geometric Brownian motion. ...
The Dynamics of a Mobile Phone Network
2008 | PAPERS, PUBLICATIONSCesar A. Hidalgo and C. Rodriguez-Sickert. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (12): 3017-24, 2008. ABSTRACT The empirical study of network dynamics has been limited by the ...
Distinguishing Noise from Chaos
2007 | PAPERS, PUBLICATIONSO. A. Rosso, H. A. Larrondo, M. T. Martin, A. Plastino and Miguel Angel Fuentes. Physical Review Letters 99, 154102, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.154102, 2007. ABSTRACT Chaotic systems share with stochastic ...
When in Rome do as the Romans do: The coevolution of altruistic punishment, conformist learning, and cooperation
2007 | PAPERS, PUBLICATIONSRicardo Andrés Guzmán, Carlos Rodríguez Sickert, Robert Rowthorn. Evolution and Human Behavior, Vol. 28, N°2, pp. 112–117, 2007. ABSTRACT We model the coevolution of social learning rules and behavioral ...