After the 2008 financial collapse, the now popular measure of implied systemic risk called the absorption ratio was introduced. This statistic measures how closely the economy's markets are coupled. The more closely financial markets are coupled the more susceptible they are to systemic...

The US economy's information processing ratio (R/C) was derived by Parker (2016-2019) to study the emergence of flash crashes, the evolution of the business cycle, and to provide an important new link connecting the branches of finance. In this paper the evolution of the R/C ratio over the...

This paper provides a nonmathematical introduction to the US economy's information processing ratio (R/C). This measure derived by Parker (2016-2019), was utilized to study the emergence of flash crashes, the evolution of the business cycle, and to provide an important new link connecting the...

Concepts from information theory are utilized to study the effects of entropy on the behavior of finance systems and variables of interest. From this analysis, a common entropic measure was derived that determines the structure and evolution of a wide variety of financial topologies. This...

While a wide variety of hypotheses have been offered to explain the anomalous market phenomena known as a “Flash Crash”, there is as of yet no consensus among financial experts as to the sources of these sudden market collapses. In contrast to the behavior expected from standard financial...

All economic and financial activity involves the communication of information across space and time. Additionally, communicated and processed information is the only universal fundamental input to all economic and financial production and exchange. Well established laws from physics and...

Florida, like the rest of the nation, has undergone many economic changes in the last quarter-century. Some obvious examples of this ongoing evolution are the decline of the manufacturing base and the growth of international trade. In the case of Florida specifically, the growth of the...

Venture capital investment throughout the United States in general and the southeast in particular has grown dramatically in recent years, becoming an integral part of our economy. It has helped create such companies as Apple Computer, Intel, Federal Express, Digital Equipment, and Microsoft...