The dynamics of firms can be understood by studying the properties of their growth rates. Although there has been a significant amount of work in trying to clarify the statistical properties of the growth-rate distribution, mimicking in many ways the tradition of studying the statistical properties of financial returns, a clear picture of their inter-temporal dynamics is still missing.
In this talk, I will present preliminary results on this topic. I will show that firms have an auto-correlated growth structure, but also that the structure of the correlations between firms shows a lot of interesting features –such as oscillations with non-trivial frequencies — whose origin is yet to be clearly elucidated.
Bio
José Moran is a postdoctoral research officer at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. He is also a junior external fellow of CSH. He is trained in statistical physics and complexity economics, and has his main interests in data-driven agent-based modelling, firm statistics, supply chain analysis and also more general complex systems modelling.
If you would like to attend the talk, please sign-up via office@csh.ac.at
José Moran will give a talk on Friday, February 24, 2023 at 3 PM in the Salon.