Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-03-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
31 pages, LaTeX, to appear in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Scientific paper
This paper studies a stylized model of local interaction where agents choose from an ever increasing set of vertically ranked actions, e.g. technologies. The driving forces of the model are infrequent upward shifts (``updates''), followed by a rapid process of local imitation (``diffusion''). Our main focus is on the regularities displayed by the long-run distribution of diffusion waves and their implication on the performance of the system. By integrating analytical techniques and numerical simulations, we come to the following two main conclusions. (1) If dis-coordination costs are sufficiently high, the system behaves critically, in the sense customarily used in physics. (2) The performance of the system is optimal at the frontier of the critical region. Heuristically, this may be interpreted as an indication that (performance-sensitive) evolutionary forces induce the system to be placed ``at the edge of order and chaos''
Arenas Alex
Diaz-Guilera Albert
Perez Jean Carlos
Vega-Redondo Fernando
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