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  1. The Extended vs. The Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Theory

    Article • Philosophies, May 2025, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  2. Opportunity Costs, Cognitive Biases, and Autism

    Article • Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  3. Feathers of Grace: The “After You” Gesture in Japanese Tits

    Article • Biology, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  4. Adapting the National Financial Capability Test to Address Generational Differences in Cognitive Biases

    Article • International Journal of Financial Studies, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  5. Cognitive Biases in Penalty Shootouts: Evaluating Fairness in ABAB and ABBA Formats

    Article • Psychology International, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  6. Granular Cities

    Article • Economies, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  7. Differential entropy estimation with a Paretian kernel: Tail heaviness and smoothing

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, July 2024, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  8. Predicting the pulse of the Amazon: Machine learning insights into deforestation dynamics

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, June 2024, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  9. Feathers of Grace: The “After You” Gesture in Japanese Tits

    Article • April 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sergio Da Silva

  10. The Riemann Hypothesis: A Fresh and Experimental Exploration

    Article • Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science, April 2024, Sciencedomain International

    Sergio Da Silva

  11. Survival of the luckiest

    Article • Visual Geosciences formerly Electronic Geosciences, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sergio Da Silva

  12. Modified Verhulst–Solow model for long-term population and economic growth

    Article • Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment, February 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Sergio Da Silva

  13. Causal Inference, Fast and Slow

    Article • OALib, January 2024, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  14. Unintentional Evolution: The Rise of Reciprocal Altruism

    Article • Humans, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  15. Machine Learning for Enhanced Credit Risk Assessment: An Empirical Approach

    Article • Journal of Risk and Financial Management, November 2023, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  16. The Granular Size Concept in Avian Ecology: A Critical Analysis of eBird Data Bias Using the Bird Rank Abundance Distribution

    Article • Birds, November 2023, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  17. System 1 vs. System 2 Thinking

    Article • Psych, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  18. Granular banks and corporate investment

    Article • Journal of Economics and Finance, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sergio Da Silva

  19. Editorial: Highlights in psychology: cognitive bias

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2023, Frontiers

    Sergio Da Silva

  20. Power Laws Govern the Abundance Distribution of Birds by Rank

    Article • Birds, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Sergio Da Silva

  21. The effect of loss aversion and entitlement on cheating: An online experiment

    Article • Acta Psychologica, March 2023, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  22. Editorial: Taking stock in econophysics

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, February 2023, Frontiers

    Sergio Da Silva

  23. Retrodicting with the truncated Lévy flight

    Article • Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, January 2023, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  24. Losses make choices nonpositional

    Article • SN Business & Economics, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sergio Da Silva

  25. Granular inflation spillovers

    Article • International Journal of Operations & Production Management, October 2022, Emerald

    Sergio Da Silva

  26. The duration of historical pandemics

    Article • Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, October 2022, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  27. Reciprocity vs. Commitment in Bank Marketing Strategies

    Article • International Journal of Business Economics and Management, June 2022, Pak Publishing Group

    Sergio Da Silva

  28. Editorial: Granularity in Econophysics and Macroeconomics

    Article • Frontiers in Physics, June 2022, Frontiers

    Sergio Da Silva

  29. Why Is Friday Better than Sunday?

    Article • Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, March 2022, SAGE Publications

    Sergio Da Silva

  30. Marriage, Quarrels, and Lovemaking

    Article • Studies in Microeconomics, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Sergio Da Silva

  31. The granularity of the Brazilian banking market

    Article • The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, November 2021, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  32. Two selves and two minds in a longitudinal survey of risk attitudes

    Article • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, March 2021, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  33. Monetary Policy Experiments in an Agent-Based Macroeconomic Model

    Article • OALib, January 2021, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  34. The Success of Top Professional Athletes Is Not Only Success in Sports

    Article • OALib, January 2021, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  35. Bypassing the truncation problem of truncated Lévy flights

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, December 2020, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  36. Earnings distributions of scalable vs. non-scalable occupations

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, December 2020, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  37. The asymmetric Brazilian input–output network

    Article • International Journal of Operations & Production Management, July 2020, Emerald

    Sergio Da Silva

  38. A power law in the ordering of the elements of the periodic table

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, June 2020, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  39. Robot Bites Swan

    Article • OALib, January 2020, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  40. Ego Depletion May Explain Gender Differences in Multitasking

    Article • Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Sergio Da Silva

  41. Real estate list price anchoring and cognitive ability

    Article • International Perspectives on Health Equity, August 2019, Emerald

    Sergio Da Silva

  42. Propensity to sell stocks in an artificial stock market

    Article • PLOS One, April 2019, PLOS

    Sergio Da Silva

  43. Inflation Forecasting: Rewarding Luck Rather Than Skill?

    Article • OALib, January 2019, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  44. Regressive Prediction Is the Best Way to Forecast Sports Outcomes: Evidence from Brazilian Soccer

    Article • OALib, January 2019, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  45. The Influence of Psychotropic Drugs on Investor Overconfidence

    Article • OALib, January 2019, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  46. Granularity of the top 1,000 Brazilian companies

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, December 2018, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  47. Lotka’s law for the Brazilian scientific output published in journals

    Article • Journal of Information Science, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Sergio Da Silva

  48. Debt of high-income consumers may reflect leverage rather than poor cognitive reflection

    Article • Review of Behavioral Finance, March 2018, Emerald

    Sergio Da Silva

  49. The Touchard distribution

    Article • Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Sergio Da Silva

  50. On the neural substrates of the disposition effect and return performance

    Article • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, March 2018, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  51. The Brazilian scientific output published in journals: A study based on a large CV database

    Article • Journal of Informetrics, February 2017, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  52. A “Citation Surplus” Should Be Added to the h-Index

    Article • OALib, January 2017, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  53. Automatic Evaluation of Faces Predict Mayor Election Outcomes in Brazil

    Article • OALib, January 2017, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  54. Personality Influences Hyperbolic Discounting

    Article • OALib, January 2017, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  55. Social Preferences, Financial Literacy and Intertemporal Choice

    Article • OALib, January 2017, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  56. Cowboying Stock Market Herds with Robot Traders

    Article • Computational Economics, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sergio Da Silva

  57. The St. Petersburg paradox: An experimental solution

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, March 2016, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  58. A Power Law Governing Prime Gaps

    Article • OALib, January 2016, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  59. Utilitarian Moral Judgments Are Cognitively Too Demanding

    Article • OALib, January 2016, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  60. KAHNEMAN’S THINKING FAST AND SLOW: FROM BESTSELLER TO TEXTBOOK

    Article • Revista de Administração de Empresas, February 2015, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Sergio Da Silva

  61. Atheists Score Higher on Cognitive Reflection Tests

    Article • OALib, January 2015, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  62. Financial Market Efficiency Should be Gauged in Relative Rather than Absolute Terms

    Article • Journal of Stock & Forex Trading, January 2015, OMICS Publishing Group

    Sergio Da Silva

  63. Prosocial People Take Better Care of Their Own Future Well-Being

    Article • OALib, January 2015, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Sergio Da Silva

  64. 2D:4D Digit Ratio Predicts Delay of Gratification in Preschoolers

    Article • PLOS One, December 2014, PLOS

    Sergio Da Silva

  65. Preschoolers and the Endowment Effect

    Article • PLOS One, October 2014, PLOS

    Sergio Da Silva

  66. Risk seekers may be antisocial after all

    Article • Clinical and Experimental Medical Sciences, January 2014, Hikari, Ltd.

    Sergio Da Silva

  67. Why Not Use Robots to Stabilize Stock Markets?

    Article • Journal of Stock & Forex Trading, January 2014, OMICS Publishing Group

    Sergio Da Silva

  68. Hidden power law patterns in the top European football leagues

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, November 2013, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  69. The disposition effect and investor experience

    Article • Journal of Banking & Finance, May 2013, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  70. Biological correlates of the Allais paradox

    Article • Applied Economics, February 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Sergio Da Silva

  71. Psychophysiological Correlates of the Disposition Effect

    Article • PLOS One, January 2013, PLOS

    Sergio Da Silva

  72. A suggested statistical test for measuring bivariate nonlinear dependence

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, October 2012, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  73. Queuing theory applied to the optimal management of bank excess reserves

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, February 2012, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  74. Jump diffusion models and the evolution of financial prices

    Article • Physics Letters A, August 2011, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  75. Spectral analysis informs the proper frequency in the sampling of financial time series data

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, June 2011, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  76. Fat tails, long-range correlations and multifractality as emergent properties in nonstationary time series

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), March 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Sergio Da Silva

  77. Robot traders can prevent extreme events in complex stock markets

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, November 2010, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  78. Risk seeking behavior of preschool children in a gambling task

    Article • Journal of Economic Psychology, October 2010, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  79. Efficiency of financial markets and algorithmic complexity

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, September 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Sergio Da Silva

  80. Stock returns and foreign investment in Brazil

    Article • Applied Financial Economics, September 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Sergio Da Silva

  81. Comment on Casey Mulligan: Keynes in Both Fresh and Salt Water

    Article • The Economists Voice, March 2010, De Gruyter

    Sergio Da Silva

  82. Bolhas racionais no índice Bovespa

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Economia, June 2009, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Sergio Da Silva

  83. Does Macroeconomics Need Microeconomic Foundations?

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2009, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  84. Algorithmic complexity theory and the relative efficiency of financial markets

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), November 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Sergio Da Silva

  85. Foreign exchange intervention and central bank independence: the Latin American experience

    Article • Applied Financial Economics Letters, September 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Sergio Da Silva

  86. Disposition effect and gender

    Article • Applied Economics Letters, May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Sergio Da Silva

  87. WINNERS AND LOSERS FROM DOLLAR DEPRECIATION

    Article • Economic Affairs, February 2008, Wiley

    Sergio Da Silva

  88. The Lévy sections theorem: An application to econophysics

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, December 2007, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  89. Are pound and euro the same currency?

    Article • Physics Letters A, August 2007, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  90. The Levy sections theorem revisited

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, May 2007, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Sergio Da Silva

  91. The Chinese chaos game

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, May 2007, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  92. Log-periodic crashes revisited

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, May 2006, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  93. Nonidentically distributed variables and nonlinear autocorrelation

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, May 2006, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  94. Financial volatility and independent and identically distributed variables

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, February 2005, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  95. Exponentially damped Lévy flights, multiscaling and slow convergence in stockmarkets

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, October 2004, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  96. Lévy flights, autocorrelation, and slow convergence

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, June 2004, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  97. Autocorrelation and the sum of stochastic variables

    Article • Physics Letters A, May 2004, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  98. Exponentially damped Lévy flights, multiscaling, and exchange rates

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, February 2004, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  99. Sistemas complexos, criticalidade e leis de potência

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, January 2004, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Sergio Da Silva

  100. Exponentially damped Lévy flights

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, August 2003, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  101. On the origins of truncated Lévy flights

    Article • Physics Letters A, August 2003, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  102. Autocorrelation as a source of truncated Lévy flights in foreign exchange rates

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, May 2003, Elsevier

    Sergio Da Silva

  103. Article • Open Economies Review, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sergio Da Silva