Hideaki Aoyama obtained his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1982 and studied High Energy Physics at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Massachusetts, and a lecturer at Northeastern University, Boston. He is an Advising Council for Credit Risk Database (Tokyo) and a Faculty Member of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Tokyo (RIETI).
Preface
Foreword, Acknowledgements, List of tables
List of figures, prologue, 1. Introduction: reconstructing macroeconomics
2. Basic concepts in statistical physics and stochastic models
3. Income and firm-size distributions
4. Productivity distribution and related topics
5. Multivariate time-series analysis
6. Business cycles
7. Price dynamics and inflation/deflation
8. Complex network, community analysis, visualization
9. Systemic risks
Appendix A: computer program for beginners
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.
