Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents A Practical Guide to Agent-Based Modeling /

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This book offers a practical guide to Agent Based economic modeling, adopting a "learning by doing" approach to help the reader master the fundamental tools needed to create and analyze Agent Based models. After providing them with a basic "toolkit" for Agent Based modeling, it p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Caiani, Alessandro (Editor), Russo, Alberto (Editor), Palestrini, Antonio (Editor), Gallegati, Mauro (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:New Economic Windows,
Subjects:
Macroeconomics.
Microeconomics.
Computer simulation.
Social sciences-Data processing.
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics.
Computer Modelling.
Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I Introduction to Agent Based Economics (Editors)
  • A brief historical and theoretical overview of the methodology
  • From the micro to the macro
  • Part II Getting started: The logical structure of an AB model
  • Thinking agents and their behaviors
  • Thinking market structures
  • Defining the timing of the simulation model
  • Part III Implementing the model
  • A simple model of business fluctuations with heterogeneous interacting agents and credit networks
  • Modeling financial markets in an agent-based framework
  • Part IV Analyzing and validating the model
  • Validation and calibration
  • Scenario and policy analysis
  • Economic networks analysis
  • Testing micro heuristics in the lab
  • Appendix/Website: Source codes of the applications presented.

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