Observed arrival · 2026-09-16
Nicolas Boitout’s Dissertation, Rebuilt as Browser Laboratories
A 2004 economics dissertation on exchange-rate dynamics, volatility, and currency crises, reconstructed as interactive research experiments.
Field notes
The project starts with a physical constraint: the author says the original PDF and code were lost, leaving only a printed dissertation to photograph and digitize. Its reconstruction is organized around models rather than pages, including a multifractal volatility treatment and two agent-based simulations—one for traders who change their minds and another for a speculative attack on a fixed exchange rate. The page also links the work to a DOI and a GitHub account.
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