Robert Marks' Working Papers

As yet unpublished working papers.

• Owen Young and Robert E. Marks (2008), Mergers across Borders: Analysing the Internationalisation of Financial Institutions. Here.

• Robert E. Marks and David F. Midgley (2008), The retailer needs to be paid for sophisticated decisions: modeling promotional interactions among consumers, retailers, and brand managers, Here.

• Lawrance, A.B., and R.E. Marks (2006), Survival of Firms and Plants in a Supply-Constrained Industry. Here.

• Marks, R.E. (2006) The Satisficer's Curse. Revised, 2008. Here.

• Marks, R.E. (2007) Validating Simulation Models: A General Framework and Four Applied Examples, Computational Economics, 30(3): 265-290, October. Here.

• Lawrance, A.B., and Marks R.E. (2007) Firm size distribution in an industry with constrained resources, Applied Economics, forthcoming. Here.

• Midgley D.F., Marks R.E., and Kunchamwar D. (2007) The Building and Assurance of Agent-Based Models: An Example and Challenge to the Field, Journal of Business Research, vol. 60, pp. 884-893.. Here.

• Marks R.E. (2006) Validation and functional complexity, The First World Congress on Social Simulation, August 21-25, Kyoto University, Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto, Japan. Here.

• Shiraz, G.M., Marks R.E., Midgley D.F., and Cooper L.G. (1998) Using Genetic Algorithms to breed competitive marketing strategies, in the Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics La Jolla, California, USA October 11-14, 1998: Intelligent Systems for Humans in a Cyberworld.
  (Abstract, and link to full paper in Acrobat PDF 3.0 format)

• Marks, R.E. (1999) Evolved perception and the validation of simulation models, in Barnett W.A., Chiarella C., Keen S., Marks R.E., and Schnabl H., (editors), Commerce, Complexity and Evolution in Finance and Economics, No. 11 in the series: International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics, ed. by W. A. Barnett, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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• Drake A.E. and Marks R.E. (1998) Genetic algorithms in economics and finance: forecasting stock market prices and foreign exchange \(em a review, Australian Graduate School of Management Working Paper 98-004, (February).
  (Acrobat PDF 3.0 format)

• Marks R.E., Midgley D.F., and Cooper L.G. (1998) Refining the breeding of hybrid strategies, (Abstract and paper)

• Marks R.E. and Schnabl H. (1999) Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks: a comparison based on the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, to appear in in Thomas Brenner (ed.), Computational Techniques for Modelling Learning in Economics, in the series Advances in Computational Economics, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Australian Graduate School of Management Working Paper 97-014. (Acrobat PDF 3.0 format)

• Midgley D.F., Marks R.E., and Cooper L.G. Breeding competitive strategies, Management Science. Lead article. (43(3): 257-275, March, 1997)

• Marks R.E. (1996) Evolved perception and behaviour in oligopolies, presented at the Second International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Geneva, June, 1996. Published in The Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1998.
  (Abstract || Acrobat PDF 3.0 format)

• Marks, R.E. (1995) Closed tender vs. open bidding auctions, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Sydney.

• Marks R.E. (1993) Niche strategies: the Prisoner's Dilemma computer tournaments revisited, conditionally accepted for publication, Computational Economics. (Acrobat PDF 3.0 format)

• Marks R.E. (1991) Costly complexity of strategies in repeated games, presented at the 1991 Australasian Meetings of the Econometric Society, University of New South Wales, Sydney (10-13 July)

• Marks R.E. (1991) The costs of drug law enforcement, presented at the PNG Foundation for Law, Order, and Justice's international conference on Drug-Related Crime in Papua New Guinea, Lae (May 13-17)

• Marks R.E. (1991) Air-polluting behaviour in Australia: instruments for change, presented at Market-Based Environmental Policy, a conference hosted by the School of Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney (20 March)

• Marks R.E. (1990) Measures of strategic complexity, presented at the Sixth World Congress of the Econometric Society, Barcelona (22-28 August).

• Marks R.E. and P.L. Swan (1988) The irrelevance of OPEC: property rights and implicit discount rates in the world oil market, AGSM Working Paper 87-027, Revised March 1988. Acrobat version here.

• Marks, R.E. (1987) Wages and discrimination with incomplete information, presented at the Fourth Analytical Economists' Workshop, Canberra, (February), and the 1986 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Melbourne, (August), AGSM Working Paper 87-028, (October). Read a 1993 version here.

• Marks, R.E. and R. Ball (1986) Short-term supply side instability in the oil market, presented at the Fifteenth Conference of Economists, Melbourne, AGSM Working Paper 86-023, (September). Read the paper here.

• Marks, R.E. (1983) Energy, output, and employment in the short run, presented at the 1979 Econometric Society Meetings, Atlanta, AGSM Working Paper 83-030, (October). Acrobat version here.

• Marks, R.E. and J.L. Sweeney (1983) Expectations and the Hotelling Rule, presented at the 1983 Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society, Canberra, AGSM Working Paper 83-005, (February). Read a revised version without figures here.

• Marks, R.E. and J.L. Sweeney (1980) The competitive pricing of non-renewable natural resources, presented at the 1979 Western Economic Association Meetings, Las Vegas, Energy Modeling Forum Occasional Paper OP 8.1, Stanford University, (July).

• Marks R.E. (1981) Macro-economic effects of the import parity pricing of oil, presented at the Tenth Conference of Economists, Canberra, (August). (Read the paper in Acrobat PDF 4.0 format)