Gerald Silverberg
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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Biography
Gerald Silverberg studied physics and mathematics at Cornell and Harvard Universities in the USA. He worked as a science journalist in New York before moving to Europe and studying economics and economic history, as well as mathematical systems theory. He was a Research Associate at the University of Stuttgart from 1983 to 1987 with primary responsibility for a research project on technical change and the theory of self-organisation, sponsored by the German Research Council (DFG). In 1987 he was employed by the International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study (IFIAS); since January 1988 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).Dr. Silverberg first worked at IIASA in 1995/96. He returned to the Institute in July 2006 and is currently working with the DYN Program.
Last update: 14 JUL 2009
Publications
Silverberg, G. & Verspagen, B. (1995). An Evolutionary Model of Long Term Cyclical Variations of Catching Up and Falling Behind. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-95-009
Silverberg, G. & Verspagen, B. (1995). From the Artificial to the Endogenous: Modeling Evolutionary Adaptation and Economic Growth. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-95-008
Silverberg, G. & Verspagen, B. (1995). An evolutionary model of long term cyclical variations of catching up and falling behind. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 5 (3) 209-227.
Silverberg, G. & Verspagen, B. (1994). Economic Dynamics and Behavioral Adaptation: An Application To An Evolutionary Endogenous Growth Model. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-94-084
Dosi, G., Ermoliev, Y.M., & Kaniovski, Y.M. (1994). The method of generalized urn schemes in the analysis of technological and economic dynamics. In: The Economics of Growth and Technical Change. Eds. Silverberg, G. & Soete, L., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.