Economic Evolution, Learning, and Complexity

Uwe Cantner, geb. 1960, ist seit 2000 Inhaber des Lehrstuhls VWL, insbesondere Mikroökonomik, an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

I Oligopoly and Learning.- 1 Norms as emergent properties of adaptive learning: The case of economic routines.- 2 An experimental study of adaptive behavior in an oligopolistic market game.- 3 Horizontal heterogeneity, technological progress and sectoral development.- II Industry Studies.- 4 Market share instability and stock price volatility during the industry life cycle: the US automobile industry.- 5 Knowledge spillovers in biotechnology: sources and incentives.- 6 Chance, necessity and competitive dynamics in the Italian Steel Industry.- III Econometric and Empirical Techniques.- 7 Detecting self-organisational change in economic processes exhibiting logistic growth.- 8 Modelling growth in economic systems as the outcome of a process of self-organisational change: a fuzzy regression approach.- 9 Variety and economic development: conceptual issues and measurement problems.- IV Growth, Human Capital and Innovation.- 10 Reassessing the empirical validity of the human-capital augmented neoclassical growth model.- 11 Institutions, entrepreneurship, economic flexibility and growth - experiments on an evolutionary micro-to-macro model.- V Governmental Learning and Policy.- 12 Interaction between public policies and technological competition under environmental risks.