Frank H. Westerhoff
 

Curriculum vitae (PDF)


Recent Working Papers
 


Dieci, R. and Westerhoff, F. ( 2007: Interacting cobweb markets.
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Westerhoff, F. and Hohnisch, M. (2007): Consumer Sentiment, Countercyclical Fiscal Policies and (Political) Business Cycles
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Westerhoff, F. and Wieland, C. (2005): A behavioral cobweb model with heterogeneous speculators.
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Hilker, F. and Westerhoff, F. (2005): Control of chaotic population dynamics: Ecological and economic considerations.
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Publications
 
 

Hilker, F. and Westerhoff, F. (2007): Preventing extinction and mass outbreaks in irregularly fluctuating populations. American Naturalist, in press
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Westerhoff, F. (2007): On central bank interventions and transaction taxes. Applied Financial Economics Letters, Vol. 3, 11-14.
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Hilker, F. and Westerhoff, F. (2007): Triggering crashes in chaotic dynamics. Physics Letters A, 362, 407-411.
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Westerhoff, F. and Hohnisch, M. (2006): A note on interactions-driven business cycles. Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, in press.
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Kopel, M., Westerhoff, F. and Wieland, C. (2006): Regulating complex dynamics in firms and economics systems. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, in press.
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Reitz, St., Westerhoff, F. and Wieland, C. (2006): Target zone interventions and coordination of expectations. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Vol. 128, 453-467.
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Westerhoff, F. (2006): Consumer sentiment and business cycles: A Neimark-Sacker bifurcation scenario. Applied Economics Letters, in press.
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Manzan, S. and Westerhoff, F. (2006): Heterogeneous expactations, exchange rate dynamics and predictability. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, in press.
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Lines, M. and Westerhoff, F. (2006): Expectations and the multiplier-accelerator model. In: T. Puu and I Sushko (eds.): Business cycle dynamics: Models and tools. Springer-Verlag, 255-276.
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Reitz, S. and Westerhoff, F.  (2006): Commodity price cycles and heterogeneous speculators: A STAR-GARCH model. Empirical Economics, in press.
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Hilker, F. and Westerhoff, F. (2006): The paradox of simple limiter control. Physical Review E, 73, 052901 (3)
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Ehrenstein, G. and Westerhoff, F. (2006): The working of circuit beakers within percolation models for financial markets. International Journal of Modern Physics C, Vol. 17, 299-304.
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Westerhoff, F. (2006): Heuristic expectation formation and business cycles: A simple linear model. Metroeconomica (in press)
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Westerhoff, F. (2006): Technical analysis based on price-volume signal and the power of trading breaks. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Vol. 9, 227-244.
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Westerhoff, F. (2006): Samuelson's multiplier-accelerator model revisited. Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 13, 89-92.
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Corron, N., He, X.-Z. and Westerhoff, F. (2006): Butter mountains, milk lakes and optimal price limiters. Applied Economics Letters (in press).
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Westerhoff, F. and Dieci, R. (2006): The effectiveness of Keynes-Tobin transaction taxes when heterogeneous agents can trade in different markets:
A
behavioral finance approach. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 30, 293-322.
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Westerhoff, F. (2006): Nonlinear expectation formation, endogenous business cycles and stylized facts. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Volume 10, Issue 4, Article 4.
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Westerhoff, F. (2006): Business cycles, heuristic expectation formation and contracyclical policies. Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 8, 821-838.
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Westerhoff, F. (2005): The impact of flow analysis on exchange rate dynamics. Finance Letters, Vol 3., Issue 3.
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Wieland, C. and Westerhoff, F. (2005): Exchange rate dynamics, central bank intervention and chaos control methods. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vo. 58, 117-132.
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He, X.-Z. and  Westerhoff, F. (2005): Commodity markets, price limiters and speculative price dynamics. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 29, 1577-1596.
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Ehrenstein, G., Westerhoff, F. and Stauffer, D. (2005): Tobin tax and market depth. Quantitative Finance, Vol. 5, 213-218.
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Westerhoff, F. (2005): Consumer behavior and fluctuations in economic activity. Advances in Complex Systems, 8, 209-215.
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Manzan, S. and Westerhoff, F. (2005): Representativeness of news and exchange rate dynamics. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 29, 677-689.
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Westerhoff, F. (2005): Heterogeneous traders, price-volume signals and complex asset price dynamics. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Vol. 2005, 19-29.
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Westerhoff, F. and Reitz, St. (2005): Commodity price dynamics and the nonlinear market impact of technical traders: empirical evidence for the U.S. corn market. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Application, Vol. 349, 641-648.
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Westerhoff, F. and Wieland, C. (2004): Spill-over dynamics of central bank interventions. German Economic Review, 5, 435-450.
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Westerhoff, F. (2004): Speculative dynamics, feedback traders and transaction taxes: a note. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften/Review of Economics, Vol. 55, 190-195
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Westerhoff. F. and Manzan, S. (2004): Does liquidity in the FX market depend on volatility?. Economics Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 10, 1-8.
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Westerhoff, F. (2004): Greed, fear and stock market dynamics. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Application, Vol. 343C, 635-642.
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Westerhoff, F. (2004): Market depth and price dynamics: a note. International Journal of Modern Physics C, Vol. 15, 1005-1012.
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Westerhoff, F. (2004): Multi-asset-market dynamics. Macroeconomic Dynamics, Vol. 8, 596-616.
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Westerhoff. F. and Wieland, C. (2004): Central bank interventions, chartists and the FX markets. The Technical Analyst, Issue 02, 36-37.
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Westerhoff, F.H. and Reitz, St. (2003): Nonlinearities and cyclical behavior: the role of chartists and fundamentalists. Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, Vol. 7, No. 4, Article 3.
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Westerhoff, F. (2003): Market maker, inventory control and foreign exchange dynamics. Quantitative Finance, Vol. 3, 363-369.
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Westerhoff, F. (2003): Bubbles and crashes: optimism, trend extrapolation and panic. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Vol. 6, 829-837.
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Lawrenz, C. and Westerhoff, F. (2003): Modeling exchange rate behavior with a genetic algorithm. Computational Economics, Vol. 21, 209-229.
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Westerhoff, F. (2003): Heterogeneous traders and the Tobin tax. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 13, 53-70.
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Westerhoff, F. (2003): Speculative behavior and asset price dynamics. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol. 7, 245-262.
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Westerhoff, F. (2003): Central bank intervention and feedback traders. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Vol.13, 419-427.
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Westerhoff, F. (2003): Expectations driven distortions in the foreign exchange market. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 51, 389-412.
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Westerhoff, F. (2003): Speculative markets and the effectiveness of price limits. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 28, 493-508.
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Westerhoff, F. (2003): Anchoring and psychological barriers in foreign exchange markets. Journal of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 4, 65-70.  Formerly: Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets.
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Westerhoff, F. (2002): Chartists, fundamentalists and exchange rate fluctuations. Shaker Verlag, Aachen.
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Westerhoff, F. (2001): Speculative behavior, exchange rate volatility, and central bank intervention. Central European Journal of Operations Research, Vol. 9, 31-50.
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Westerhoff, F. (1999): Japan in der Krise, in: Wacker, G. und C. Müller-Hofstede (Hrsg.): Asienkrise, Demokratie, Nationalismus. Neue Wechselwirkungen zwischen Politik und Ökonomie in Ostasien, Köln: Bundesinstitut für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien, 23-28.
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