François Lafond
francoislafond.bsky.social
François Lafond
@francoislafond.bsky.social
Deputy Director of the Complexity Economics programme, INET, OMS, SSEE, University of Oxford.
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Our introduction to a special issue in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization is now online
Complex systems approaches to 21st century challenges: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
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Redirecting
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May 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Forthcoming in 'The Economy as an Evolving Complex System IV' from SFI Press - but you can have a sneak peak here first! Forecasting technological progress by @francoislafond.bsky.social

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March 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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New paper on Forecasting with Agent-Based Models from Sam Wiese, Jagoda Kaszowska-Mojsa, @joelnmdyer.bsky.social, @j0mrn.bsky.social, Marco Pangallo, Francois Lafond, John Muellbauer, Ani Calinescu, @doynefarmer.bsky.social
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No. 2024-06 - Forecasting Macroeconomic Dynamics using a Calibrated…
In the last few years, economic agent-based models have made the transition from qualitative models calibrated to match stylised facts to quantitative…
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October 1, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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Your weekend read is here! Why Is Productivity Slowing Down? New paper from Ian Goldin, Pantelis Koutroumpis @francoislafond.bsky.social and Julian Winkler now available in the Journal of Economic Literature.
Why Is Productivity Slowing Down?
(March 2024) - We examine the contribution of different explanations to the slowdown of labor productivity. Comparing the post-2005 period with the preceding decade for five advanced economies, we see...
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March 8, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Just published in Corporate and Industrial Change: Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution - Jangho Yang, Torsten Heinrich, Julian Winkler, @francoislafond.bsky.social, Pantelis Koutroumpis, @doynefarmer.bsky.social

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Measuring productivity dispersion: a parametric approach using the Lévy alpha-stable distribution
Abstract. It is well known that value added (VA) per worker is extremely heterogeneous among firms, but relatively little has been done to characterize thi
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June 5, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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Calling all complexity scientists whose work addresses 21C challenges, from climate change and net zero transition to polarization. Special issue of JEBO, proposals due Feb 15 2024 #econsky polisky www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
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November 5, 2023 at 3:09 PM