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  title info:
    title: Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents
    sub title: A Practical Guide to Agent-Based Modeling
  name:
    name part: Caiani, Alessandro.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Russo, Alberto.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Palestrini, Antonio.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Gallegati, Mauro.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 205 p. 50 illus., 6 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 present and discusses didactic models of real financial and economic systems in detail. While stressing the main features and advantages of the bottom-up perspective inherent to this approach, the book also highlights the logic and practical steps that characterize the model building procedure. A detailed description of the underlying codes, developed using R and C, is also provided. In addition, each didactic model is accompanied by exercises and applications designed to promote active learning on the part of the reader. Following the same approach, the book also presents several complementary tools required for the analysis and validation of the models, such as sensitivity experiments, calibration exercises, economic network and statistical distributions analysis. By the end of the book, the reader will have gained a deeper understanding of the Agent Based methodology and be prepared to use the fundamental techniques required to start developing their own economic models. Accordingly, “Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents” will be of particular interest to graduate and postgraduate students, as well as to academic institutions and lecturers interested in including an overview of the AB approach to economic modeling in their courses.
  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.
  note: edited by Alessandro Caiani, Alberto Russo, Antonio Palestrini, Mauro Gallegati.
  subject:
    topic: Computer simulation
  subject:
    topic: Application software
  subject:
    topic: Microeconomics
  subject:
    topic: Macroeconomics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
  subject:
    topic: Microeconomics
  subject:
    topic: Simulation and Modeling
  subject:
    topic: Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences
  classification: HB172.5
  classification: 339
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New Economic Windows
  identifier: 9783319440583
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44058-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 160921
    record change date: 20160921102959.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-44058-3