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Ugo Merlone

Current Position:

Associate Professor of Mathematics applied to Economics. Faculty of Economics, University of Torino.


Education:

  • PhD. Mathematics applied to Economic Decisions (University of Trieste).

    Dissertation: “Un approccio parametrico per la risoluzione di una classe di problemi di programmazione matematica”  (Solution of some classes of mathematical programming problems: a parametric approach ) defended the 3rd of June 1998.

    Advisor: Prof. Elena Moretti Tomasin, University of Venezia.

  • M.A. Human Resources Management and Organizational Development, October, 29th 2008 (University of Torino)

    Dissertation: “Incentivi nei gruppi di lavoro” (Incentives in work groups), defended on October .

    Advisor: Prof. Giovanni Briante, University of Torino.
  • M.S. Mathematics, November 20th  1990 (University of Turin).
    Dissertation: “Algoritmi di modellazione per sistemi informatici: teoria e metodi numerici” (Information Systems  modeling Algorithms: theory and numerical methods).

    Advisor: Prof. Francesco Lerda, University of Torino.


Professional Affiliations

Licensed Psychologist #5882, Ordine degli Psicologi del Piemonte.

 

Visiting Positions:

  • University of Arizona, February-March  2010
  • University of Arizona, February-April  2009
  • University of Arizona, April-May  2008
  • University of Arizona, May-June  2007
  • University of Arizona, February 2006
  • London School of Economics, Spring 2004
  • Harvard University, Spring 2003
  • Harvard University, Spring 2002
  • University of Almeria (Spain), May 2001


Referee:

  • Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
  • Mathematical Methods of Operations Research
  • International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management
  • Physica A
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations
  • International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
  • Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications
  • International Journal of Production Economics

 

Research interests: 

  • Mathematical approaches to organizations
  • Micro behavior of artificial agents
  • Financial structure and collusion
  • Social Networks Dynamics
  • Non linear optimization on polytopal feasible sets


Published Papers

 

Referred International Journals:

1)   Akio Matsumoto, Ferenc Szidarovszky and Ugo Merlone,
    “Cartelising Groups in Dynamic Oligopoly with  Antitrust
     Thresold”, Australian Economic Papers,     vol. 49 (2010),
      No 4, pp.289-300, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8454.2010.00403.x

2)  Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “Incentives and Individual
     Motivation in Supervised Work Groups”, European Journal
     of Operational Research, Vol. 207 (2010), 878-885
     doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.05.023 

3)  Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “Effort Dynamics in
     Supervised Work Groups”, Journal of Economic
     Behavior & Organization, Vol. 75 (2010) 413-425
     doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2010.05.010

4)  Gian Italo Bischi and Ugo Merlone, “Binary choices in
     small and large groups: A unified model”, Physica A:
     Statistical  Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 389, (2010), 
      No. 4,  pp.843-853, doi:10.1016/j.physa.2009.10.010

5) Akio Matsumoto, Ferenc Szidarovszky and Ugo Merlone,
    “Dynamic Oligopoly with Partial Cooperation and Antitrust
    Thresold”, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,
    vol. 73 (2010), No 2, pp.259-272,
     http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2009.08.014

6) Gian Italo Bischi, Laura Gardini and Ugo Merlone, “Periodic       Cycles and Bifurcation Curves for One-Dimensional Maps      
     with  two Discontinuities”, Journal of Dynamical Systems
    and Geometric Theories”, Vol 7 (2009) No.2 November,
    pp. 101-124   doi:10.1155/2009/407913

7)   Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone,  “Social Entrepreneurship 
     Effects on the Emergence of Cooperation in Networks”,
    Emergence: Complexity and Organization, vol. 11, (2009),   
      No. 4, pp.48-58

8)  Gian Italo Bischi and Ugo Merlone, “Global Dynamics in
      Binary Choice Models with social Influence”, Journal of 
      Mathematical Sociology, vol. 33, (2009), No. 4, pp. 277-302
9)  Gian  Italo  Bischi,    Laura  Gardini  and   Ugo  Merlone,
    “Impulsivity  in  binary  choices and the  emergence  of                 Periodicity”,  Discrete  Dynamics  in Nature and Society”,
    vol.  9, (2009), Article ID 407913, doi:10.1155/2009/407913

10) Arianna Dal Forno,   Ugo Merlone,     “Optimal Efforts in
       Heterogeneous  Agents Population with Global and Local
       Interactions”, Cubo, a Mathematical Journal, vol. 11,
       (2009), no. 2, pp. 15-36

11)  Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “IIndividual Incentives in  Supervised Work Groups: from Human Subject  Experiments  to agent based simulation.”, International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, vol. 6, (2009), no. 1,  pp. 4-22

12)   Akio Matsumoto, Ferenc Szidarovszky and Ugo Merlone,  
         "Cartelizing Groups in Dynamic  Linear Oligopoly with  
        Antitrust Threshold", International Game Theory Review,           vol. 10, (2008), no.4, pp. 399-419

13) Ugo Merlone, Michele Sonnessa and Pietro Terna     “Horizontal and Vertical Multiple Implementations in a Model of Industrial Districts.”, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations,  ISSN 1460-7425, vol.11 (2008), No. 2 5

14)  Ugo Merlone,  Ferenc Szidarovszky,  Miklos N. Szylagyi    “Finite Neighborhood Games with Binary Choices”, Mathematica Pannonica, vol. 18, (2007), no.2, pp. 205-217

15)  Ugo Merlone, “Shareholdings Interlocks: Profit Formulations and Cartelizing Effects.”, Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, vol. 10, (2007), no. 1, pp.99-117

16) Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “Incentives in Supervised Teams: an Experimental and Computational Approach.”, Journal of Social Complexity, vol. 3, (2007), No. 1, pp.37-52

17) Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone,  “The Emergence of Effective Leaders: An Experimental and Computational Approach”, Emergence: Complexity and Organization, vol. 8, (2006), No. 4, Special Issue: Complexity & Leadership, pp.36-51

18) Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “From Classroom Experiments to Computer Code.”, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations,  ISSN 1460-7425, vol.7 (2004), No. 3 2

19)  Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “Personnel turnover in organizations: an agent-based simulation model”, “Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences”, vol.8, (2004) No.2, pp.205-230

20) Ugo Merlone, “Incentives and Computing Systems for Team-Based Organizations: A Mathematical and Economic Analysis”, Organization Science, vol. 13 (2002), No. 6,  pp.734-736

21)  Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “A multi-agent simulation  platform for modeling perfectly rational and bounded-rational agents in organizations.”, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations,  ISSN 1460-7425, vol.5 (2002), No. 2 3

22)  Ugo Merlone, “Cartelizing Effects of Horizontal Shareholding Interlocks”,   Managerial and Decision Economics, vol.22 (2001), No 2, pp 333-337

23)  Ugo Merlone, “The optimal solution method applied to a non linear programming problem with exponential objective function” Journal of Information & Optimization Sciences, vol.21 (2000), No 2, pp 305-321


Peer Reviewed Chapters in Books:

24)   Gian Italo Bischi and Ugo Merlone,  “Global Dynamics
        in Adaptive Models of Collective Choice with Social   
      Influence”, in  Naldi G., Pareschi L., and  Toscani G. (eds.),
      Mathematical Modeling of Collective Behavior in Socio-             Economic and Life Sciences, Birkhauser, Boston (2010),
      pp 223-244 

25) Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone,  “Social Entrepreneurship
       Effects on the Emergence of Cooperation in Networks”,    
       in  GoldsteinJ. A., Hazy J. K., and  Silberstang J.(eds.), 
       Complexity Science and Social  Entrepreneurship:          
        Adding   Social Value through  Systems Thinking, 
        ISCE Publishing,  Mansfield, MA,  2009,  pp. 427-442

26) Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone,  “Network Dynamics when Selecting Work Team Members”, in  Naimzada A.K., Stefani S., Torriero A. (eds.) Networks, Topology and Dynamics. Springer, Lecture Notes in Economics & Mathematical Systems,  Vol. 613, (2008), pp.229-239

27) Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone,  “The Emergence of Effective Leaders: An Experimental and Computational Approach”, in  Hazy J. K., Goldstein J. A. and  Lichtenstein
B. B. (eds.), Complex Systems Leadership Theory New Perspectives from Complexity Science on Social and Organizational Effectiveness, ISCE Publishing, Mansfield (MA), (2007), pp.231-252

28) Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “ The Evolution of      Coworkers Networks An Experimental and Computational Approach”, in Edmonds B., Hernández Iglesias C., and Troitzsch K. G. (eds.), Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries, Information Science Reference, Hershey (PA), (2007), pp.280-293

29)  Ugo Merlone, Pietro Terna, “ Population Symbiotic Evolution in a Model of Industrial Districts”, in Rennard J.P (ed.) Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economics and Management, Idea Group Reference, Hershey (Pa), (2006), pp.301-316


Referred Italian Journals:

30)  Ugo Merlone, “Taeg, anno commerciale e anno civile: alcune approssimazioni.”, Giornale dell’Istituto Italiano degli Attuari,  vol. LXIII, Roma (2000), pp.47-55

31) Edoardo Cervesato, Ugo Merlone, “Stima Bayesiana dei   Coefficienti Beta: un’applicazione al mercato Italiano”, Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, Ottobre-Dicembre 1995


International Conference Proceedings:

32) Ugo Merlone, Michele Sonnessa and Pietro Terna “Industrial Districts: Multiple Implementations of Population Symbiotic Evolution”, Proceedings of the First World Congress on Social Simulation, August 21-25 2006, Kyoto

33) Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “Building Grounded Agents: the lesson from Glaser and Strauss”, Proceedings of the First World Congress on Social Simulation, August 21-25 2006, Kyoto

34) Umberto Cerruti, Mario Giacobini, Ugo Merlone, “A New Framework to Analyze Evolutionary 2x2 Symmetric Games”, IEEE Proceedings of “CIG’05: Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games”, April 4-6 2005, Essex University, Colchester, Essex, UK

35) Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “Modular Pyramidal  Hierarchies and Social Norms. An Agent Based Model.” in  “Industry and Labor Dynamics”, proceedings of the wild@ace2003 workshop, October 3-4, 2003 Turin, Italy

36) Ugo Merlone, “MBS, default and social welfare”,  Proceedings of V Congreso Nacional y III Hispano-Italiano de Matematica Financiera y Actuarial, Bilbao 26-28 Aprile 2000, also presented at 27th Earie  Conference, 7-10 september, Lausanne

37)  Ugo Merlone, “TRM Approach in Loans”, Atti del Secondo Convegno Italo-Spagnolo di Matematica Finanziaria, Napoli 1-3 Luglio 1999,  La Città del Sole (2001), pp.403-418

38) Ugo Merlone, “Financial laws, arbitrage and algebraic structures”, Atti del First Spanish-Italian Meeting on financial Mathematics, Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Aldo G.S. Ventre eds,  1998, Universidad de Almeria

 

Italian Conference Proceedings:

 

39)  Ugo Merlone, “Horizontal shareholding interlocks with relaxed hypotheses”, Atti del ventitreesimo convegno A.M.A.S.E.S.,  1999, Rende

40)  Ugo Merlone, “Il Problema dell’estinzione anticipata di un impiego”, Atti del ventiduesimo convegno A.M.A.S.E.S.,  1998, Bozzi Editore, Genova

41)  Ugo Merlone, “GAPV, investimenti scalabili e politiche finanziarie ottime ”, Atti del diciottesimo convegno A.M.A.S.E.S.,  1994, Pitagora Editrice, Bologna

42)  Ugo Merlone, “Scelte dinamiche ottime d’investimento”, Atti del diciassettesimo convegno A.M.A.S.E.S.,  1993, Istituto Italiano degli Studi Filosofici, Napoli

43)  Ugo Merlone, “Il criterio del tasso di reimpiego, un’analisi critica”, Atti del quindicesimo convegno A.M.A.S.E.S.,  1991, Grado

 

Other:


44)  Ugo Merlone, “Il mobbing e la System Dynamics”, Personale e Lavoro, 493 Anno XLII-n.3, Giugno 2006

45) Ugo Merlone, Neil James Alexander Sloane, Integer sequence A114043, on The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/Seis.html, February the 22nd , 2006

46)  Arianna Dal Forno, Ugo Merlone, “Incentive Policy and Optimal Effort: Equilibria in Heterogeneous Agents Population”, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Umane “Diego de Castro”,  2001, Università degli Studi di Torino

47)  Ugo Merlone, “Soluzione di alcune generalizzazioni di problemi di programmazione frazionaria mediante il metodo delle soluzioni ottime di livello”, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Umane “Diego de Castro”,  2000, Università degli Studi di Torino

48)  Ugo Merlone, “Error Extimations in a class of concave  separable problems”, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Umane “Diego de Castro”,  1999, Università degli Studi di Torino

49)  Ugo Merlone, “Un approccio parametrico per la risoluzione di una classe di problemi di programmazione matematica”, PhD Dissertation, 1998, Università di Trieste

50)  Ugo Merlone, “Modelli di leva finanziaria generalizzata”, Il Risparmio, N.2, marzo-aprile 1992

 

Books:


  • Ugo Merlone, Appunti di Matematica Finanziaria con una Introduzione alle Scienze Manageriali, Edizioni Accademia Europea, Torino, 2010
  • Piergianni Curti, Ugo Merlone, Collezione Esercizi di Matematica per le Applicazioni Economiche e Finanziarie, Edizioni Accademia Europea, Torino, 2008 
  • Ugo Merlone, Elementi di Matematica per le Applicazioni Economiche e Finanziarie con Analisi Non Standard, Edizioni Accademia Europea, Torino, 2007
  • Ugo Merlone, Giovanna Redaelli, Matematica Generale, Etas Libri, Milano, 1995

 

Working Papers:


-  “The Emergence of Cooperation in Networks with Decay  Functions.”, with Arianna Dal Forno

-  “Inertia in Binary Choices: continuity breaking and big-bang bifurcation points.”, with Laura Gardini and Fabio Tramontana

-  “Are Are three choices just two choices plus one?”, with Arianna Dal Forno and Laura Gardini

-  “An adaptive dynamic model of segregation”, with Gian Italo Bischi

-  “Global dynamics in adaptive models of collective choice with social influence”, with Gian Italo Bischi

-  “Leader Emergence in Artificial Populations: the Role of Networks.”, with Arianna Dal Forno

-  “Complex Dynamics in supervised Work Groups.”, with Arianna Dal Forno

- “Cartelizing Groups in Dynamic Hyperbolic Oligopoly with antitrust Threshold”, with  Akio Matsumoto and Ferenc Szidarovszky

- “Some Notes on applying the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index”, with  Akio Matsumoto and Ferenc Szidarovszky

-  “Competition Among firms with Differentiated Products,
    Heterogeneous Consumer and Antitrust Authorities: An
    Agent-based simulation Platform”, with  Ferenc Szidarovszky

-        “A Unified Model of binary Choiches in Groups: From Rumors Spreading to Traffic Congestion”, with Gian-Italo Bischi

-       “Organizations as Allocators of Human and Material
Resources”, presented at “The Law, Economics, and Organizations Seminars”, Harvard University,   April 7, 2003

-   “Modular Pyramidal Hierarchies and Social Norms. An Agent           Based Model.” with Arianna Dal Forno

-   “Minority Stakeholdings as an Anti-Competitive Device” with Carmelo Salleo, presented at “International Industrial Organization Conference”, Boston, April  4-5, 2003

-         “The term structure of interest rates: an algebraic model and axiomatic approach to arbitrage” with Salvador Cruz Rambaud, presented at the 5th Italian-Spanish Conference on Financial Mathematics, Valencia,  June 20-22 2002 

-         “NPV and ROE Decision Making in Cournot Competition” presented at FUR X, Turin May 30 – June 2, 2001, and at the 5th Italian-Spanish Conference on Financial Mathematics, Valencia, June 20-22, 2002

 

Last Update: January the 4th, 2011