ISBN-13: 9781843764151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 352 str.
Networks provide the foundation for the functioning of our societies and economies. Their study has a long tradition in such fields as engineering, operations research, management science and computer science. More recently, the disciplines of finance and economics have to be rich sources of network-based problems and applications. This volume of contributions from international scholars provides a wealth of innovations in the study of financial and economic networks. graph, the evolutions of financial systems as networks, the incorporation of electronic transactions in international finance (from a network perspective), new formalisms for the study of supply chains (as fluid models and in a network economic framwork) and new applications of agent-based computational economics trade network intermediaries and worker-employer networks. Finally, trade networks in web-based caching are introduced. transaction costs, integrated pension and corporate planning, evolutionary financial networks, international finance and electronic transactions as well as hedging instruments for transportation networks. Innovative approaches to economic networks are developed in the context of supply chain distribution networks, a variety of trade (including web-based caching) networks and even worker-employer networks.