ARTICLES 1995-2006

Almost all articles are available on the preprint data base arXiv at one of the following addresses:
cond-mat
most recent articles

1) Evolution of urban systems in the Pareto plane
Journal of Regional Science 35,2,277-300 (1995)

2) The role of transportation costs in the economics of commodity markets.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78,339-353 (1996)

3) Spatial and historical determinants of separatism and integration.
Swiss Journal of Sociology 23,25-59 (1997)

4) Jesuits and the state. A comparative study of their expulsions (1500-1990).
Religion 27,165-182 (1997)

5) The comparative way in economics. A reappraisal.
Economie Appliquee 50,4,7-32 (1997)

6) The sharp peak - flat trough pattern and critical speculation.
in collaboration with Didier Sornette.
The European Physical Journal B 4,387-399 (1998)

7) Spatial analysis of real estate price bubbles: Paris 1984-1993.
Regional Science and Urban Economics 29,73-88 (1999)

8) The space-time pattern of price waves.
The European Physical Journal B 8,151-159 (1999)

9) Analysis of the phenomenon of speculative trading in one of its basic manifestations: postage stamp bubbles.
in collaboration with Didier Sornette.
International Journal of Modern Physics C 10,6,1099-1116 (1999)

10) Identifying the bottom line after a stock market crash. International Journal of Modern Physics C 11,1,91-100 (2000)

11) The correlation length of commodity markets: 1. Empirical evidence.
The European Physical Journal B 13,175-187 (2000)

12) The correlation length of commodity markets: 2. Theoretical framework.
The European Physical Journal B 13,189-200 (2000)

13) Speculative trading: the price multiplier effect.
The European Physical Journal B 14,395-399 (2000)

14) "Thermometers" of speculative frenzy.
in collaboration with Didier Sornette.
The European Physical Journal B 16,729-739 (2000)

15) Determining bottom price-levels after a speculative peak.
The European Physical Journal B 17,341-345 (2000)

16) Comparing the correlation length of grain markets in China and France.
in collaboration with Carol Shiue
International Journal of Modern Physics C 11,7,1383-1410 (2001)

17) To sell or not to sell? Behavior of shareholders during price collapses.
International Journal of Modern Physics C 12,1,43-53 (2001)

18) Two classes of speculative peaks.
Physica A 299, 71-83 (2001)

19) Patterns of speculation in real estate and stocks.
Proceedings of the Second Nikkei Economics Symposium, Tokyo 2002 Hideki Takayasu editor, Springer (2004).

20) Does the price multiplier effect also hold for stocks?
in collaboration with Sergei Maslov
International Journal of Modern Physics C 14,10,1439-1451 (2003).

21) The conundrum of stock versus bond prices.
in collaboration with Sergei Maslov
Physica A, 335,164-182 (2004)

22) Response functions to critical shocks in social sciences: an empirical and numerical study.
in collaboration with Didier Sornette and Jorgen Andersen
International Journal of Modern Physics C 15,6,809-834 (2004).

23) Stock markets are not what we think they are: the key roles of cross-ownership and corporate treasury stock.
Physica A, 347, 613-626 (2005)

24) A bridge between liquids and socio-economic systems: the key-role of interaction strengths.
Physica A, 348,659-682 (2005)

25) Macroplayers in stock markets.
Proceedings of the Third Nikkei Economics Symposium, Tokyo (2006). Hideki Takayasu editor, Springer

26) Real estate price peaks: a comparative perspective.
Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review 2,2,167-182 (2006)

27) White flight or flight from poverty?
in collaboration with Charles Jego
Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 1,75-87 (2006)

28) Property market set to slump
Physics World, 31 May 2006

29) A physicist's view of the notions of exogamy and endogamy.
in collaboration with Charles Jego
Preprint

RECENT INVITED TALKS (2002-2007)

1) Santa Fe Institute; February 21, 2002
Common features of speculation in various markets

2) Stanford University, Dept. of Political Science; March 11, 2002
Why and how to decompose historical events into elementary modules

3) University of California, Davis; April 9, 2002
Comparative analysis of historical recurrent events

4) Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago; April 24, 2002
The dynamics of speculative peaks

5) Columbia University, Dept. of Sociology; May 1, 2002
Analyzing clusters of events

6) Brookhaven National Laboratory; May 2, 2002
Dynamic response times in speculative bubbles

7) Second Nikkei Conference, Tokyo; November 12, 2002
Patterns of speculation in real estate and stocks

8) Rutgers University, Dept. of economics; May 7, 2003
Patterns of speculation in real estate and stocks.

9) Brookhaven National Laboratory; May 19, 2003
Why econophysics? The primacy of observation.

10) Third Nikkei Conference, Tokyo; November 10, 2004
Macroplayers in stock markets

11) International Christian University, Tokyo; Dept. of Economics; Novembre 12, 2004
Macroplayers in stock markets

12) University of Toscane, Viterbo, Italy; Dept. of Economics; September 2, 2005
Transfat: risk, profit and consensus formation.

13) National University of Singapore, Singapore; Dept. of Economics; September 21, 2007
Econophysics: challenges and promises

14) East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai; School of Management; September 27, 2007
Real estate price peaks in comparative perspective

15) Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Dept. of Physics; October 9, 2007
Econophysics: challenges and promises

16) Renmin University, Beijing; Dept. of Physics; October 15, 2007
Econophysics: challenges and promises

17) Beijing Normal University, Beijing; Dept. of Systems Science; October 17, 2007
Econophysics: challenges and promises

18) Chuo University, Tokyo; Dept. of Economics; November 1, 2007
Real estate price peaks in comparative perspective

19) Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo; Dept. of Physics; November 6, 2007
Econophysics: challenges and promises

20) Kyoto University, Kyoto; Dept. of Economics; November 13, 2007
Econophysics: challenges and promises