In this paper, a general equilibrium model of a monetary production economy is presented. The model is characterized by three classes of agents: a representative firm, heterogeneous households, and the government. Two markets (i.e., a labour market and a goods market, are considered) and two...

In this work we analyze a simple model of adsorption-induced surface reconstruction, which is developed in the framework of the lattice gas model. The critical behavior of the substrate atoms is obtained by monitoring the specific heat and the fluctuations in the fraction of unreconstructed...

We analyse the relationship between dynamics and configuration space structure of Ising spin glass systems. The exact knowledge of the structure of the low-energy landscape is used to study the relaxation of the system by random walk in the configuration space. The influence of the size of the...

Recent formulation of the Zaller model of mass opinion is generalized to include the interaction between agents. The mechanism of interaction is close to the bounded confidence model. The outcome of the simulation is the probability distribution of opinions on a given issue as dependent on the...

We present statistical mechanics models to understand the physical and molecular mechanisms of X-Chromosome Inactivation (XCI), the process whereby a female mammal cell inactivates one of its two X-chromosomes. During XCI, X-chromosomes undergo a series of complex regulatory processes. At the...