460 research outputs found
Anomalous transport: a deterministic approach
We introduce a cycle-expansion (fully deterministic) technique to compute the
asymptotic behavior of arbitrary order transport moments. The theory is applied
to different kinds of one-dimensional intermittent maps, and Lorentz gas with
infinite horizon, confirming the typical appearance of phase transitions in the
transport spectrum.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Periodic orbit theory of strongly anomalous transport
We establish a deterministic technique to investigate transport moments of
arbitrary order. The theory is applied to the analysis of different kinds of
intermittent one-dimensional maps and the Lorentz gas with infinite horizon:
the typical appearance of phase transitions in the spectrum of transport
exponents is explained.Comment: 22 pages, 10 figures, revised versio
Households' savings in China
This paper studies the determinants of Chinese householdsâ saving. Domestic saving in China is the highest in the world in terms of GDP and it is mirrored in a large and persistent current account surplus. First, we show that notwithstanding the rising contribution of government and firms to national savings, they stand out because of householdsâ behaviour. Our econometric analysis proceeds from the work of Modigliani and Cao (2004) that explained rising personal saving in China within the life-cycle hypothesis. We prove that their explanation is insufficient. Then, using panel data and exploiting differences among provinces and between urban and rural households, we show that there is a significant dissimilarity in savings decisions in urban and rural areas and that motives other than those envisaged in the life-cycle model might play a major role, above all precautionary savings and liquidity constraints. Our results suggest that to reduce the propensity to save of Chinese households it is necessary to improve the provision of social services and to facilitate access to credit.China, saving rate, precautionary savings
Follow the fugitive: an application of the method of images to open dynamical systems
Borrowing and extending the method of images we introduce a theoretical
framework that greatly simplifies analytical and numerical investigations of
the escape rate in open dynamical systems. As an example, we explicitly derive
the exact size- and position-dependent escape rate in a Markov case for holes
of finite size. Moreover, a general relation between the transfer operators of
closed and corresponding open systems, together with the generating function of
the probability of return to the hole is derived. This relation is then used to
compute the small hole asymptotic behavior, in terms of readily calculable
quantities. As an example we derive logarithmic corrections in the second order
term. Being valid for Markov systems, our framework can find application in
information theory, network theory, quantum Weyl law and via Ulam's method can
be used as an approximation method in more general dynamical systems.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figur
Temporal-varying failures of nodes in networks
We consider networks in which random walkers are removed because of the
failure of specific nodes. We interpret the rate of loss as a measure of the
importance of nodes, a notion we denote as failure-centrality. We show that the
degree of the node is not sufficient to determine this measure and that, in a
first approximation, the shortest loops through the node have to be taken into
account. We propose approximations of the failure-centrality which are valid
for temporal-varying failures and we dwell on the possibility of externally
changing the relative importance of nodes in a given network, by exploiting the
interference between the loops of a node and the cycles of the temporal pattern
of failures. In the limit of long failure cycles we show analytically that the
escape in a node is larger than the one estimated from a stochastic failure
with the same failure probability. We test our general formalism in two
real-world networks (air-transportation and e-mail users) and show how
communities lead to deviations from predictions for failures in hubs.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figure
Forecasting inflation and tracking monetary policy in the euro area: does national information help?
The ECB objective is set in terms of year on year growth rate of the Euro area HICP. Nonetheless, a good deal of attention is given to national data by market analysts when they try to anticipate monetary policy moves. In this paper we use the Generalized Dynamic Factor model to develop a set of core inflation indicators that, combining national data with area wide information, allow us to answer two related questions. The first is whether country specific data actually bear any relevance for the future path of area wide price growth, over and above that already contained in area wide data. The second is whether in order to track ECB monetary policy decisions it is useful to take into account national information and not only area wide statistics. In both cases our findings point to the conclusion that, once area wide information is properly taken into account, there is little to be gained from considering national idiosyncratic developments. JEL Classification: C25, E37, E52dynamic factor model, forecasting, inflation, monetary policy, Taylor rule
L\'evy walks on lattices as multi-state processes
Continuous-time random walks combining diffusive scattering and ballistic
propagation on lattices model a class of L\'evy walks. The assumption that
transitions in the scattering phase occur with exponentially-distributed
waiting times leads to a description of the process in terms of multiple
states, whose distributions evolve according to a set of delay differential
equations, amenable to analytic treatment. We obtain an exact expression of the
mean squared displacement associated with such processes and discuss the
emergence of asymptotic scaling laws in regimes of diffusive and superdiffusive
(subballistic) transport, emphasizing, in the latter case, the effect of
initial conditions on the transport coefficients. Of particular interest is the
case of rare ballistic propagation, in which case a regime of superdiffusion
may lurk underneath one of normal diffusion.Comment: 27 pages, 4 figure
Random walks in a one-dimensional L\'evy random environment
We consider a generalization of a one-dimensional stochastic process known in
the physical literature as L\'evy-Lorentz gas. The process describes the motion
of a particle on the real line in the presence of a random array of marked
points, whose nearest-neighbor distances are i.i.d. and long-tailed (with
finite mean but possibly infinite variance). The motion is a continuous-time,
constant-speed interpolation of a symmetric random walk on the marked points.
We first study the quenched random walk on the point process, proving the CLT
and the convergence of all the accordingly rescaled moments. Then we derive the
quenched and annealed CLTs for the continuous-time process.Comment: Final version to be published in J. Stat. Phys. 23 pages. (Changes
from v1: Theorem 2.4 and Corollary 2.6 have been removed.
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