Agent-based modeling, dynamics of financial markets and market interactions.
Nonlinear dynamics, heterogeneous agents, bounded rationality and market instabilities.
Publications
Gardini, L., Radi, D., Schmitt, N., Sushko, I. and Westerhoff, F. (2024): On boom-bust stock market dynamics, animal spirits and the destabilizing nature of temporarily attracting virtual fixed points. Macroeconomics Dynamics, forthcoming.
Gardini, L., Radi, D., Schmitt, N., Sushko, I. and Westerhoff, F. (2024): Bifurcation structures of a two-dimensional piecewise-linear discontinuous map: analysis of a cobweb model with regime-switching expectations. Nonlinear Dynamics, forthcoming.
Gardini, L., Radi, D., Schmitt, N., Sushko, I. and Westerhoff, F. (2022): Causes of fragile stock market stability. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 200, 483-498.
Schmitt, N., Tuinstra, J. and Westerhoff, F. (2017): Market interactions, endogenous dynamics and stabilization policies. In: Commendatore, P., Kubin, I., Bougheas, S., Kirman, A., Kopen, M. and Bischi, G.I (eds.): The Economy as a Complex Spatial System. Springer, Berlin, 137-152.
Working Papers
Gardini, L., Radi, D., Schmitt, N., Sushko, I. and Westerhoff, F. (2024): New Economic Era Thinking and Stock Market Bubbles: A Two-Dimensional Piecewise Linear Discontinuous Map Approach. Working Paper, University of Bamberg.
Dieci, R., Schmitt, N. and Westerhoff, F. (2022): Boom-bust cycles and asset market participation waves: momentum, value, risk and herding. Working Paper, University of Bamberg.