Latest Advances in Mathematical Economics

A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "E5: Financial Mathematics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 6255

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  • Solutions for differential and integral calculus, difference and differential equations, matrix algebra, and mathematical programming in new, innovative computational environments;
  • ICT tools for teaching mathematical economics courses and evaluating students’ theoretical and practical knowledge;
  • The recent results in graph theory for problems that represent and explain economic behavior, income, and wealth distribution;
  • Games theory;
  • Computational and algorithmic methods in economics;
  • The formation and analysis of input–output structures with matrix algebra formulations;
  • Topological issues answering open questions regarding the well-posedness of problems, and theorems on the existence of a solution, i.e., of a time-dependent equilibrium, and/or the uniqueness of a solution, i.e., of a stationary equilibrium.

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  • stability
  • convergence issues
  • analytical solutions
  • coefficient matrices
  • computational and algorithmic methods

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Openness, Unionized Labor Markets, and Monetary Policy
by Xakousti Chrysanthopoulou, Evangelos Ioannidis and Moïse Sidiropoulos
Mathematics 2025, 13(7), 1181; https://doi.org/10.3390/math13071181 - 3 Apr 2025
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This paper extends the micro-founded DSGE open economy model by incorporating unionized labor markets. Unlike the standard framework with atomistic unions, large labor unions consider broader economic conditions and internalize the impact of their wage settlements on the aggregate economy. By emphasizing the [...] Read more.
This paper extends the micro-founded DSGE open economy model by incorporating unionized labor markets. Unlike the standard framework with atomistic unions, large labor unions consider broader economic conditions and internalize the impact of their wage settlements on the aggregate economy. By emphasizing the interplay between internal and external sources of economic distortions and monetary policy regimes, we demonstrate that the economy’s openness, the degree of wage-setting centralization, and different monetary policy regimes influence unions’ wage-setting behavior and macroeconomic outcomes. The analysis identifies three key effects—the monetary policy effect, the intertemporal substitution effect, and the open economy effect—that large unions internalize when adjusting their wage demands in response to policy actions and external conditions. This novel wage-based mechanism alters the New Keynesian Phillips curve, with implications for the conduct of monetary policy, particularly in shaping the economy’s response to shocks and equilibrium determinacy. The real effects of monetary policy shocks under different policy settings depend on large unions’ internalization effect. In a unionized labor market, the impact of monetary shocks on the real economy is amplified compared to the standard case with atomistic unions. Additionally, interactions among large unions, openness, and monetary policy regimes affect determinacy properties of equilibrium (i.e., uniqueness of the solution path) under various forms and timing of monetary policy rules. This paper offers new insights into how union coordination interacts with monetary policy regimes and trade openness to shape macroeconomic stability (uniqueness of rational expectations equilibrium) and the dynamic response of the economy to shocks. These findings enhance our understanding of monetary policy design in economies with strong large labor institutions and external trade exposure—an area that remains underexplored in the existing DSGE literature. Full article
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Feedback Control Techniques for a Discrete Dynamic Macroeconomic Model with Extra Taxation: An Algebraic Algorithmic Approach
by Stelios Kotsios
Mathematics 2023, 11(19), 4213; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11194213 - 9 Oct 2023
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In this paper, a model matching feedback law design technique is applied to a macroeconomical model. We calculate, using computational algebra methodology, which paths of government expenditure and extra taxation will lead the system to a desired dynamic behavior. The solution is based [...] Read more.
In this paper, a model matching feedback law design technique is applied to a macroeconomical model. We calculate, using computational algebra methodology, which paths of government expenditure and extra taxation will lead the system to a desired dynamic behavior. The solution is based on algebraic methods and the development, in computer algebra software, of appropriate symbolic algorithms that produce a class of feedback laws as solutions. A method for solving a linear algebraic system of polynomials equations is provided, as well as its application to the feedback law design. Full article
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Exploring the Contributions to Mathematical Economics: A Bibliometric Analysis Using Bibliometrix and VOSviewer
by Kyriaki Tsilika
Mathematics 2023, 11(22), 4703; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11224703 - 20 Nov 2023
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From Cournot, Walras, and Pareto’s research to what followed in the form of marginalist economics, chaos theory, agent-based modeling, game theory, and econophysics, the interpretation and analysis of economic systems have been carried out using a broad range of higher mathematics methods. The [...] Read more.
From Cournot, Walras, and Pareto’s research to what followed in the form of marginalist economics, chaos theory, agent-based modeling, game theory, and econophysics, the interpretation and analysis of economic systems have been carried out using a broad range of higher mathematics methods. The evolution of mathematical economics is associated with the most productive and influential authors, sources, and countries, as well as the identification of interactions between the authors and research topics. Bibliometric analysis provides journal-, author-, document-, and country-level metrics. In the present study, a bibliometric overview of mathematical economics came from a screening performed in September 2023, covering the timespan 1898–2023. About 6477 documents on mathematical economics were retrieved and extracted from the Scopus academic database for analysis. The Bibliometrix package in the statistical programming language R was employed to perform a bibliometric analysis of scientific literature and citation data indexed in the Scopus database. VOSviewer (version 1.6.19) was used for the visualization of similarities using several bibliometric techniques, including bibliographic coupling, co-citation, and co-occurrence of keywords. The analysis traced the most influential papers, keywords, countries, and journals among high-quality studies in mathematical economics. Full article
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