This volume sheds light on the current state of complex networks and nonlinear dynamics applied to the understanding of economic and social phenomena ranging from geographical economics to macroeconomics and finance, and its purpose is to give readers an overview of several interesting topics for research at an intermediate level. Three different and interdisciplinary, but complementary, aspects of networks are put together in a single piece, namely: (i) complex networks theory, (ii) applied network analysis to social and economic interrelations, and (iii) dynamical evolution of systems and networks. The volume includes contributions from excellent scholars in economics and social sciences as well as leading experts in the fields of complex networks and nonlinear dynamics.

Provides Clear Introductory Expositions on Complex Networks Covers Many Different Applications of Network Analysis on Socio-Economic Open Problems Includes Recent Methods Used in Network Analysis and in the Theory of Dynamical Systems

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Part I. Complex Networks.- Chapter 1.Luis Miguel Varela Cabo, Giulia Rotundo: Complex network analysis and nonlinear dynamics.-Chapter 2.Dunia López Pintado: An Overview of Diffusion in Complex Networks.- Chapter 3.Ugo Merlone, Davide Radi, Angelo Romano: Opinion Dynamics on Networks.- Chapter 4.Mariano Matilla-García and Jesus Mur: Econometric aspects of social networks.- Chapter 5.Antonio Rodriguez-Moral and Marc Vorsatz: An overview of the measurement of segregation: classical approaches and social networks.- Part II: Complex network analysis applied to economic theoretical and empirical issues.- Chapter 6.Roberto Basile, Pasquale Commendatore, Luca De Benedictis and Ingrid Kubin: An investigation of interregional trade network structures.- Chapter 7.Giorgio Fagiolo: The Empirics of Macroeconomic Networks: A Critical Review.- Chapter 8.Spiros Bougheas and Alan Kirman: Bank Insolvencies, Priority Claims and Systemic Risk.- Chapter 9.Anna Maria D'Arcangelis and Giulia Rotundo: Complex networks in finance.- Part III: Dynamical systems.- Chapter 10. Ian Stewart: A Formal Setting for Network Dynamics.- Chapter 11.Jose S. Cánovas and Maria Munoz Guillermo: Dynamics on large sets and its applications to oligopoly dynamics.- Chapter 12.Giovanny Guerrero, Jose A. Langa and Antonio Suarez: Attracting complex networks.- Chapter 13.Tönu Puu: Good Old Economic Geography.