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

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.