DIME workshop - RAL 3 WP3.5
2-3 October 2009
Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Deadline for application: June 10, 2009

Background

The evolutionary approach to markets applies evolutionary dynamics concepts, such as selection and mutation, to study the co-evolution of agents behaviors, investors strategies, wealths and prices, in goods and assets markets.

Aim of the workshop is to allow leading scholars in the field of evolutionary finance, and more broadly scholars who are investigating the evolutionary basis of capital and good markets, to present their most recent work and discuss their ideas for future research. The workshop will consist of 12-14 talks organized over two days. Nearly half of the talks will be given by invited speakers while the remaining contributions are selected through an open call. All the talks will be in plenary form so to promote an open discussion. The Workshop proceedings will collect the works presented at the conference and will be published by the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.

We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions related to the following themes of the conference:

• Evolutionary models of markets
• Evolutionary finance
• Bounded rationality and heterogeneity in markets
• Evolutionary foundations of economics

The workshop will be hosted by the Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi (www.crm.sns.it), a research center of the Scuola Normale Superiore, and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (www.sssup.it).

Invited participants

• Mikhail Anufriev (CeNDEF, University of Amsterdam)
• Larry Blume (Cornell University)
• Roberto Dieci (University of Bologna)
• David Easley (Cornell University)
• Igor Evstigneev (University of Manchester)
• Doyne Farmer (Santa Fe Institute and LUISS, Rome)
• Laura Gardini (University of Urbino)
• Tony He (University of Technology, Sidney)
• Cars Hommes (CeNDEF, University of Amsterdam)
• Alan Kirman (GREQAM, Marseille)
• Matteo Marsili (ICTP, Trieste)
• Paolo Pin (European University Institute)
• Klaus Shenk-Hoppe' (University of Leeds)

Paper submission

Please send a paper or an extended abstract (around 800 words) to the following email address (lem@sssup.it) no later than June 10, 2009. Contributions will be selected based on the originality and quality of the paper, and the relevance to the conference topic and themes. The decision of paper acceptance will be given before June 30, 2009.

Any questions concerning the conference can be addressed to Laura Ferrari (administrative issues, email:l.ferrari@sssup.it) or Pietro Dindo (scientific issues, email:p.dindo@sssup.it).

Conference registration and financial support

Participation is free upon registration. Registration should be made by downloading the dedicated form on the website of the conference (http://www.lem.sssup.it/evomarket.html). Limited financial support for travelling and/or accomodation is available for those selected speakers who have no other source of financing.

Important deadlines

• Submission of extended abstract/papers: June 10, 2009
• Acceptance notification: June 30, 2009
• Registration deadline: September 1, 2009
• Submission of papers: September 10, 2009

Website

The website of the conference is http://www.lem.sssup.it/evomarket.html

Organizing Committee

• Giulio Bottazzi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa)
• Pietro Dindo (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa)
• Stefano Marmi (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Funding

This workshop is organized with the financial support of the EU Network of Excellence DIME (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets) as well as of the two hosting institutions, Centro De Giorgi and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.