John Conlisk's research while affiliated with University of California, Riverside and other places

... Bounded rationality is critical for understanding consumer behavior in complex financial markets, particularly in the context of life insurance. This theory suggests that subjective financial literacy significantly influences purchasing decisions, as individuals often rely on their perceived financial knowledge rather than objective understanding [48,49]. ...

... How important are the general equilibrium implications of public investment for char-1 This result was supported by subsequent work in Wisconsin (Hansen 1970) and Florida (Windham 1970). 2 Conlisk (1977) develops a simple intergenerational model to show that net benefits measured here are not a good indicator of the intergenerational equity implications. However, the focus of this paper is on the distribution of benefits across households at a given point in time. ...

... Nekola & Brown 2007;Warren et al. 2011) suggests that the overall shape of natural SADs results from statistical phenomena alone. There are several purely statistical models that rely on various assumptions, other than biological mechanisms (McGill 2003a(McGill , 2010Šizling et al. 2009;White, Thibault & Xiao 2012;Conlisk et al. 2012). Perhaps the most popular is the log-normal SAD, invoking to random multiplicative process acting on abundances (Harte 2003;McGill 2003b;Nee & Stone 2003). ...

... Low upward mobility, however, does not necessarily indicate a lower opportunity to attain a high education level [15]; upward mobility may be low in countries where a considerable share of parents has already attained tertiary education [16][17][18][19]. To evaluate how a family's educational level matters for a given individual in achieving the highest educational title, 26 countries (Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Norway, New Zealand, Holland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United States, Sweden, and Turkey) were investigated considering aggregate (country-level) data for individuals [30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44] years old from OECD [14]. Based on the mainstream literature [20], original measures separately assessing 'mobility' and 'opportunities' were introduced here. ...

... In its non-directional incarnation, mobility can be viewed as the antithesis of a situation in which socioeconomic achievement in a given period accurately predicts socioeconomic achievement in the next (Atkinson 1981, Bartholomew 1982, Conlisk 1974, Dardanoni 1993, Hart 1976, Sommers and Conlisk 1979, Shorrocks 1978or Wodon and Yitzhaki 2004. Examples of mobility measures that are based on the transition matrix include the second largest eigenvalue modulus or speed of escape from initial conditions (Sommers and Conlisk 1979), the Shorrocks index based on the trace (Shorrocks 1978), or the Bartholomew index (Bartholomew 1982). ...

... In this paper we provide rigorous results related to a special Markovian model of opinion dynamics. The idea of this model was inspired by papers [1][2][3]. Lorenz [2] proposed alternative dynamical systems that mimic WD and HK, two famous agent-based models of opinion dynamics [4][5][6][7]. The approach of [2] was not based on individual agent opinions but rather on iterations of some nonlinear mapping of probability distributions on a finite opinion set. ...

... In the context of evolutionary games, a range of dynamics have been studied, including, best response dynamics [1,35,36], replicator dynamics [1,37], imitation dynamics [1,38], adaptive dynamics [1,39] and so on. While the common assumption is that interactions occur in static environment, in reality, individual's behavior can directly or indirectly influence the state of the environment, and the changing environment in turn influences decisions. ...

... When it is not possible to achieve, then the working capacity of the complex is maintained by introducing a higher number of machines (reserves), reducing the working regime of the machines, organizing technical maintenance and repair activities, or through the combination of these measures. It is necessary to take into account that these measures translate into an increase in the operating cost, which in turn, depends on the reliability of the complex, mainly on the number and complexity of failures and on the maintainability that is characterized by the cost of fault elimination (Amú, 2010;Bolch et al., 2006;Fernández & Delgado, 1989;Fernández & Álvarez, 1988;Conlisk, 1976). ...

... Monotone Markov chains are introduced by Daley in [17] and further investigated by Keilson and Kester in [18]. Several authors point out the importance of monotone Markov models in practice for diverse contexts: for example, monotone Markov models for intergenerational occupational mobility, where the states are occupational categories that have a natural ranking from worst to best, and the transition probability p ij expresses the probability that a parent in state i will have a child in state j [19]. As well as monotone Markov models where the states are income classes arranged in an increasing order can be useful in modeling intergenerational income mobility [20]. ...

... Also, other works in sociology related to influence are worth mentioning, e.g., the eigenvector-like notions of centrality and prestige [33,10,11], and models of social influence and persuasion by French [22] and Harary [29] (see also [39]). A sociological model of interactions on networks is also presented by Conlisk [13] (see also [14,15,36]), who introduces interactive Markov chains, in which every entry in a state vector at each time represents the fraction of the population with some attribute. The matrix depends on the current state vector, i.e., the current social structure is taken into account to model how sociological dynamics evolve. ...