SUF-Institute publishes and develops research on structural modeling, macroeconomic regime dynamics, cognitive structure, and political pressure formation. Our applied research is currently centered on ERM, a macro-structural signal framework for regime classification, opportunity/risk interpretation, market-state assessment, and crisis vulnerability analysis.
Our publications provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for SUF-Institute’s applied signal products. The research program examines how systems accumulate tension, preserve or lose adjustment capacity, approach boundary conditions, and shift between supportive, transitional, fragile, and high-risk states.
Featured Research
Structural Boundary Geometry of Economic Crises: A Damped Nonlinear Field Model
Field:
Macroeconomics, Nonlinear Systems, Structural Risk
Author:
Jiangwei Li
Journal:
Nonlinear Science
Publisher:
Elsevier
Status:
Accepted
Summary:
This paper develops the Economic Relativity Model as a macro-structural framework for analyzing economic crises as nonlinear boundary-related transitions. It models an economy as a bounded production system shaped by potential capacity, structural friction, and structural tension, and examines how rising cost–profit pressure can generate nonlinear output compression near structural boundaries.
The empirical analysis applies the model to major crisis and recovery episodes across the United States, Japan, and Germany from 1955 to 2025, with additional checks across OECD economies. The paper provides the methodological foundation for ERM-based macro-regime classification, structural tension measurement, crisis vulnerability analysis, and historical stress-period comparison.
The Cognitive Anchor System: A Structural Model of Self, Task Selection, and Latent Intention in Human Cognition
Field:
Cognitive Science, Cognitive Architecture, Structural Cognition
Author:
Jiangwei Li
Journal:
Frontiers in Psychology
Article Type / Section:
Consciousness Research / Consciousness-related category
Publisher:
Frontiers
Status:
In Press
DOI:
Forthcoming
Summary:
This paper introduces the Cognitive Anchor System, a structural framework for explaining how cognition maintains self-continuity while dynamically shifting among tasks, intentions, and contexts. The model proposes three organizing anchors: the self anchor, the task anchor, and an anchor pool of latent intentions and unresolved goals.
Through activation, inhibition, competition, and reconfiguration, the framework explains task selection, task switching, mind wandering, procrastination, decisional conflict, insight, and long-term goal maintenance. Within SUF-Institute’s broader research program, this paper extends structural modeling from macroeconomic systems to cognitive systems, supporting the institute’s wider focus on regime stability, structural tension, and adaptive reconfiguration across different domains.
Research Foundation for ERM Signals
ERM Macro Risk Monitor is grounded primarily in the Economic Relativity Model and its structural interpretation of macroeconomic tension, system freedom, and boundary-related regime transitions. The model is further evaluated through historical testing, cross-country comparison, and ongoing live equity-market signal observation.
SUF-Institute’s broader research program also explores how structural principles may apply across cognition, political pressure formation, and system-level instability. These related studies support the institute’s general framework, while ERM remains the primary applied methodology behind the macro-regime signal product.
Research Status
SUF-Institute’s research combines peer-reviewed publication, submitted manuscripts, historical model testing, and ongoing applied validation. Published and accepted papers are listed where available. Submitted or in-progress research may be added after editorial review, acceptance, or publication.