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The Evolutionary Economics Group

Recent Publications

Selected Publications of the Evolutionary Economics Group.

Books

• Coad, Alex: The Growth of Firms: a Survey of Theories and Empirical Evidence. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84844-327 3

  "Much progress has been made in empirical research into firm growth in recent decades due to factors such as the availability of detailed longitudinal datasets, more powerful computers and new econometric techniques. This book provides an up-to-date catalogue of empirical work, as well as a coherent theoretical structure within which these new results can be interpreted and understood. It brings together a large body of recent research on firm growth from a multidisciplinary perspective, providing an up-to-date synthesis of stylized facts and empirical regularities. Numerous empirical findings and theories of firm growth are also surveyed and compared in order to evaluate their validity."

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• Scheer, Silke: The Entrepreneur As Business Leader, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2009. ISBN 978-1-84844-333 4

  "An entrepreneur who decides to found a firm and to hire employees has to tackle two central problems: their employees’ coordination and motivation. Drawing on findings from cognitive, social and organizational psychology, this book sheds new light on the relevance of bounded rationality and social learning in the process of leadership. Silke Scheer bridges some of the missing links that can be identified within the theory of cognitive leadership and demonstrates how its scope can be broadened by investigating group level processes, and how they can have an impact on the socialization of newcomers.
  Combining both theoretical and empirical explorations, this book will be of great significance to anyone from a managerial or psychological background that is interested in leadership. Academics and students on business, management and entrepreneurship courses will also find this book invaluable."

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• Schubert, Christian: Die rechtliche Steuerung urbanen Wandels - eine konstitutionenökonomische Untersuchung. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (Einheit der Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Nr. 135), 2006.
• Schubert, Christian and Georg v. Wangenheim (eds.): Evolution and Design of Institutions. London: Routledge, 2006.
• Witt, Ulrich: The Evolving Economy -- Essays on the Evolutionary Approach to Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2006, paperback edition.
• Witt, Ulrich (ed.): Recent Developments In Evolutionary Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2008.

Articles

• Binder, Martin and U.-M. Niederle: "Institutions as Determinants of Preference Change: A One Way Relation?", in: Hanappi, H. and Elsner, W. (eds.), Advances in Evolutionary Institutional Economics: Evolutionary Mechanisms, Non-Knowledge and Strategy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 97-120.
• Broekel, Tom and Martin Binder: "The Regional Dimension of Knowledge Transfers - A Behavioral Approach", Industry & Innovation, Vol. 14(2), 2007, 151 - 175.
• Buenstorf, Guido and Steven Klepper: "Heritage and agglomeration: the Akron tire cluster revisited." Economic Journal, 119 (April) 2009, 705-733.
• Buenstorf, Guido: "Is commercialization good or bad for science? Individual-level evidence from the Max Planck Society." Research Policy 38 (2009), 281-292.
• Buenstorf, Guido and Dirk Fornahl: "B2C - Bubble to cluster: The dot.com boom, spin-off entrepreneurship, and regional agglomeration." Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 19 (2009): 349-378, DOI 10.1007/s00191-008-0119-3.
• Buenstorf, Guido: "Opportunity spin-offs and necessity spin-offs." International Journal of Entreprenurial Venturing, 1(1) 2009, 22-40.
• Buenstorf, Guido and Christian Cordes: "Can sustainable consumption be learned? A model of cultural evolution." Ecological Economics, 67 (2008): 646-657.
• Buenstorf, Guido: "Evolution on the shoulders of giants: entrepreneurship and firm survival in the German laser industry." Review of Industrial Organization, 30 (2007): 179-202.
• Buenstorf, Guido: "Creation and pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities: an evolutionary economics perspective." Small Business Economics, 28 (2007): 323-337.
• Ciarli, Tommaso, Paul Windrum and Chris Birchenhall: "Environmental impact, quality, and price: Consumer trade-offs and the development of environmentally friendly technologies", Technological Forecasting and Social Change 76 (4), 2009, 552-566.
• Ciarli, Tommaso, Paul Windrum and Chris Birchenhall: "Consumer heterogeneity and the development of environmentally friendly technologies", Technological Forecasting and Social Change 76 (4), 2009, 533-551.
• Ciarli, Tommaso, Andre Lorentz, Maria Savona and Marco Valente: "The Effect of Consumption and Production Structure on Growth and Distribution. A Micro to Macro Model", Metroeconomica (in press), 10.1111/j.1467-999X.2009.04069.x
• Ciarli, Tommaso, Riccardo Leoncini, Sandro Montresor and Marco Valente: "Technological change and the vertical organisation of industries", Journal of Evolutionary Economics 18 (2008), 367-387.
• Ciarli, Tommaso, Riccardo Leoncini, Sandro Montresor and Marco Valente: "Innovation and competition in complex environments", Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice, 9 (3-4), 2007, 292-310
• Ciarli, Tommaso and R. Rabellotti: "ICTs in industrial districts: An empirical analysis on adoption, use and impact", Industry and Innovation 14 (3), 2007, 277-303.
• Coad, Alex and Werner Hoelzl: "On the Autocorrelation of Growth Rates", Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, vol. 9(2), 2009, 139-166.
• Coad, Alex: "On the distribution of product price and quality", Journal of Evolutionary Economics’ 19(4) 2009, 589-604.
• Coad, Alex, Peter de Haan and Julia Sophie Woersdorfer: "Consumer support for environmental policies: An application to purchases of green cars", Ecological Economics, 68, 2009, 2078-2086.
• Coad, Alex: "Firm growth and scaling of growth rate variance in multiplant firms." Economics Bulletin, 12 (9) 2008, 1-15.
• Coad, Alex and Rekha Rao: "Innovation and firm growth in high-tech sectors: A quantile regression approach", Research Policy, 37 (4) 2008, 633-648.
• Coad, Alex: "A Closer Look at Serial Growth Rate Correlation", Review of Industrial Organization, 31 (2007), 69-82
• Coad, Alex: "Testing the principle of 'growth of the fitter' : The relationship between profits and firm growth", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 18(3) 2007, 370-386.
• Cordes, Christian: "Changing Your Role Models: Social Learning and the Engel Curve", Journal of Socio-Economics (forthcoming).
• Cordes, Christian: "Long-Term Developments in Human Labor and Their Political Implications", Review of Economic Philosophy (forthcoming).
• Cordes, Christian: "The Role of Biology and Culture in Veblenian Consumption Dynamics", Journal of Economic Issues, 43 (1), 2009, 115-141.
• Cordes, Christian, Peter J. Richerson, Richard McElreath and Pontus Strimling: "A Naturalistic Approach to the Theory of the Firm: The Role of Cooperation and Cultural Evolution", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 68 (1), 2008, 125 - 139.
• Cordes, Christian: "A Potential Limit of Competition", Journal of Bioeconomics, 10 (2), 2008, 127-144.
• Cordes, Christian: "The Role of ‘Instincts’ in the Development of Corporate Cultures", Journal of Economic Issues, 41 ( 3), 2007, 747-764.
• Cordes, Christian and Christian Schubert: "Toward a Naturalistic Foundation of the Social Contract", Constitutional Political Economy, 18 (1), 2007, 35-62.
• Cordes, Christian: "Can a Generalized Darwinism Be Criticized? A Rejoinder to Geoffrey Hodgson", Journal of Economic Issues, 41 (1), 2007, 277-281.
• Cordes, Christian: "Turning Economics into an Evolutionary Science: Veblen, the Selection Metaphor, and Analogical Thinking", Journal of Economic Issues, 41 (1), 2007, 135-154.
• Lorentz, André and Maria Savona: "Evolutionary micro-dynamics and changes in the economic structure" Journal of Evolutionary Economics 18 (2008), 389–412.
• Moneta, Alessio and A.Chai: "Comparing shapes of Engel curves", Economics Bulletin, 29(2), 2009, 1164-1170.
• Moneta, Alessio: "Graphical causal models and VARs: an empirical assessment of the real business cycles hypothesis", Empirical Economics, 35(2) 2008, 275-300.
• Moneta, Alessio: "Mediating between causes and probabilities: the use of graphical models in econometrics", in: J. Williamson and F. Russo (eds.), Causality and Probability in the Sciences. London: College Publications, 2007, pp. 109-129.
• Fagiolo, Giorgio, Alessio Moneta and Paul Windrum: "A Critical Guide to Empirical Validation of Agent-Based Economics Models: Methodologies, Procedures, and Open Problems", Computational Economics, 30, 2007, 195-226.
• Witt, Ulrich and Christian Zellner: "How Firm Organizations Adapt to Secure a Sustained Knowledge Transfer", Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 18 (7), 2009, 647 - 661.
• Witt, Ulrich: "Propositions about novelty" Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 70, 2009, 311–320, doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2009.01.008.
• Witt, Ulrich: "What is specific about evolutionary Economics?", Journal of Evolutionary Economics 18(5) 2008, 547-575.
• Witt, Ulrich and Thomas Brenner: "Output Dynamics, Flow Equilibria and Structural Change – A Prolegomenon to Evolutionary Macroeconomics", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 18 (2), 2008, 249-260.
• Witt, Ulrich and Christian Schubert: "Constitutional Interests in the Face of Innovations: How much do we need to know about Risk Preferences" Constitutional Political Economy, 19, 2008, 203-225.
• Witt, Ulrich: "Observational learning, group selection, and societal evolution", Journal of Institutional Economics 4:1 (2008), 1–24.
• Witt, Ulrich: "Heuristic Twists and Ontological Creeds – A Road Map for Evolutionary Economics", in: Hanappi, H. and Elsner, W. (eds.) Advances in Evolutionary Institutional Economics: Evolutionary Mechanisms, Non-Knowledge and Strategy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 9-34.
• Witt Ulrich: "Evolutionary Economics." in: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Second Edition. Eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0511
• Witt, Ulrich: "Evolutionary Economics and Psychology", chapter 20 in: Lewis, A. (ed) The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 493-511.
• Witt, Ulrich: "Firms as Realizations of Entrepreneurial Visions", Journal of Management Studies, 44 (7), 2007, 1125-1140.
• Witt, Ulrich and Christian Cordes: "Selection, Learning, and Schumpeterian Dynamics: A Conceptual Debate", in: Hanusch, H., Pyka, A. (eds.), The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007, pp. 316-328.
• Witt, Ulrich and Christian Zellner: "Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship: The Organizational Side of Technology Commercialization" in: F. Malerba, S. Brusoni (eds.), Perspectives on Innovation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 352 - 371.
• Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie: "When do social norms replace status-seeking consumption? An application to the consumption of cleanliness", Metroeconomica (forthcoming).