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Zakaria BABUTSIDZE

School of Business and Economics
Maastricht University

NEWS

From March through May 2010, I will be paying a research visit to the Center for Complexity in Business at Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.
On May 22, 2009 my paper "Knowledge Dynamics and Size Distribution of Firms" received the outstanding PhD paper award from International Schumpeter Society at European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics.
I will be contributing a chapter "Consumer Interaction: Effects on Aggregate Outcomes" to the book: "Applied Evolutionary Economics, Behavior, and Organizations," Buenstorf G. (ed.), Edward Elgar, 2010. [Other contributors include Werner Guth, Herbert Dawid and Uwe Cantner]

EVENTS

On February 4th and 5th I will be giving two talks at GREThA at University Montesquieu Bordeaux IV, France. One on the processes of "Learning How to Consume," the other on "Consumer Interaction and Innovation Incentives."
On March 29 - April 1, I will be attending the International Conference on "Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction" at National Institutes of Health, Bestheda MD, USA.

For other related events see events.

WORK IN PROGRESS

NEW On the Performance of the Representative Agent [download]
Missing Parts in Political Spectrum: Effects on Functionality of Political Decision-Making (with Natalia Timus) [download a skeleton of the paper]
Consumer Interaction and Innovation Incentives
Consumer Interaction: Effects of on Aggregate Outcomes
The Tradeoff between Product and Process Innovation: Effects on Economic Growth (with Marco Valente)

For older works see research.

organizations
MU-SBE
UNU-MERIT

networks
DIME

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