Youth unemployment plagues India denting the social fabric rather severely. A party to this, both as a cause and effect, is youth unemployment. My ideas for initiatives revolve around three main platforms – providing education, providing business support and providing publicity for the various...

As the Copenhagen talks resulted in yet another stalemate, I started to think that we needed a new way of thinking about environmental problems to tackle it. We need to bring more entrepreneurs into the field. To encourage entrepreneurs there needs to be a well functioning successful marketplace...

South Korea is one of the most developed nations in Asia, being the fourth largest economy and the 12th largest in the world, in terms of GDP (PPP) as of 2007. The nation's GDP per capita has grown from only $10,000 in 1995 to a fully developed $25,000 in 2007. This has been referred to as the...

High frequency data is a recent entrant to the world of statistics as they relate to the markets. With tick by tick data we get to see the microstructure of the markets and often are better able to see how they vary from the traditional portrayal. Traditional tools used to look at daily and...

We look at the financial markets as represented by a network of agents similar to bond percolation models in physics or epidemiology models. We aim to figure out how an agent based network model can cause perturbations that can cause failures of the traditional economic theory, specifically the...