Really proud of our new paper! inet.ox.ac.uk/files/Pichler-… We design a brand-new economic model to capture the complexity effects induced by the #COVID19 pandemic, and look for a sweet spot between economic boost and epidemic risk while reopening the economy. A thread 👇 1/N

Join our 7th #exitstrategy workshop this Friday on: The Global Production Networks and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Doyne Farmer & @FrancoisLafond4 INET Oxford University of Oxford register now with Richard: [email protected] More info here: rebuildingmacroeconomics.ac.uk/event-details/…

How does the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis differ by industry? Low-wage occupations are much more vulnerable, find R Maria del Rio-Chanona, Penny Mealy, @AnToniPichler, @FrancoisLafond4, and Doyne Farmer in our new issue: ow.ly/eofs50BCKWh

Just published my new Our World in Data post: • Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? → And what can we do to use this global opportunity for green growth? ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewabl…

Learning curves are a popular model of tech progress. Basically they say doubling cumulative production -> consistent price declines. E.g., every doubling of total installed solar capacity leads to a 20% reduction in costs. Do they really work? A thread.

New paper out today - R Maria del Rio-Chanona, Penny Mealy, Mariano Beguerisse, @FrancoisLafond4 and Doyne Farmer on occupational mobility and automation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

Doyne Farmer and @FrancoisLafond4's research with Diana Greenwald shows boosting production of renewables would significantly drop price of clean energy #RES2021 inet.ox.ac.uk/news/boosting-…

Why is productivity slowing down? New paper with Ian Goldin Pantelis Koutroumpis and Julian Winkler inet.ox.ac.uk/files/Goldin_e…

Mathematics has explained physical, chemical, & biological phenomena, but the economy? Especially given its short & long-term fluctuations? Modelling of labour markets, our latest research case study R Maria del Rio-Chanona Penny Mealy @FrancoisLafond4 Mariano Beguerisse maths.ox.ac.uk/node/39245

Happy to finally share the results from a large interdisciplinary collaboration that last > 2 years! We address some of the most debated epidemic-economic tradeoffs by building what we think is the most granular & data-driven joint epi-econ model so far arxiv.org/abs/2212.03567

Reconstructing production networks using machine learning: Luca Mungo, François Lafond Pablo A. Astudillo 🤓 pastudillo.bsky.social and Doyne Farmer evaluate the feasibility of reconstructing a network when no production network data is available in their new paper #EconTwitter sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢 Update: we just got approved for a special issue hosted by the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO), for original research papers. We're still running the Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV book for perspective pieces. Do submit by April 15!

How is the reconstruction of production networks different to other network reconstruction problems and why is it needed? Read the new paper by Luca Mungo, Alexandra Brintrup, François Lafond and Diego Garlaschelli to find out more. inet.ox.ac.uk/publications/n…

A new paper in Science from researchers including @AnToniPichler, François Lafond Doyne Farmer highlights how alliances critical to ensure supply chain security Complexity Science Hub Cambridge University Oxford Smith School Oxford Martin School inet.ox.ac.uk/news/alliances…

We are pleased to announce a call for papers on “Complex system approaches to 21st century challenges: inequality, climate change, and new technologies”, related to a conference that was held Santa Fe Institute this summer - submit by 15 February 2024 sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…

Were lockdowns needed,or would spontaneous behavior change have led to better epidemic-economic outcomes? In our paper just out in Nature Human Behaviour,we address this & other questions by building a highly granular & data-driven epi-econ agent-based model nature.com/articles/s4156… 1/12

We have a new paper out in Corporate and Industrial Change: Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution Jangho Yang, Torsten Heinrich, Julian Winkler, François Lafond, Pantelis Koutroumpis and Doyne Farmer doi.org/10.1093/icc/dt…

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