Ebook: Emergent Macroeconomics: An Agent-Based Approach to Business Fluctuations

This book contributes substantively to the current state-of-the-art of macroeconomics by providing a method for building models in which business cycles and economic growth emerge from the interactions of a large number of heterogeneous agents. Drawing from recent advances in agent-based computational modeling, the authors show how insights from dispersed fields like the microeconomics of capital market imperfections, industrial dynamics and the theory of stochastic processes can be fruitfully combined to improve our understanding of macroeconomic dynamics.

This book should be a valuable resource for all researchers interested in analyzing macroeconomic issues without recurring to a fictitious representative agent.

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This book contributes substantively to the current state-of-the-art of macroeconomics by providing a method for building models in which business cycles and economic growth emerge from the interactions of a large number of heterogeneous agents. Drawing from recent advances in agent-based computational modeling, the authors show how insights from dispersed fields like the microeconomics of capital market imperfections, industrial dynamics and the theory of stochastic processes can be fruitfully combined to improve our understanding of macroeconomic dynamics.

This book should be a valuable resource for all researchers interested in analyzing macroeconomic issues without recurring to a fictitious representative agent.

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This book contributes substantively to the current state-of-the-art of macroeconomics by providing a method for building models in which business cycles and economic growth emerge from the interactions of a large number of heterogeneous agents. Drawing from recent advances in agent-based computational modeling, the authors show how insights from dispersed fields like the microeconomics of capital market imperfections, industrial dynamics and the theory of stochastic processes can be fruitfully combined to improve our understanding of macroeconomic dynamics.

This book should be a valuable resource for all researchers interested in analyzing macroeconomic issues without recurring to a fictitious representative agent.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Crucial Issues....Pages 1-9
Stylized Facts of Industrial Dynamics: The Distribution of Firms’ Size....Pages 11-31
Stylized Facts in Industrial Dynamics: Exit, Productivity, Income....Pages 33-60
An Agent-based Model....Pages 61-93
Where Do We Go from Here?....Pages 95-103
Back Matter....Pages 105-114

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This book contributes substantively to the current state-of-the-art of macroeconomics by providing a method for building models in which business cycles and economic growth emerge from the interactions of a large number of heterogeneous agents. Drawing from recent advances in agent-based computational modeling, the authors show how insights from dispersed fields like the microeconomics of capital market imperfections, industrial dynamics and the theory of stochastic processes can be fruitfully combined to improve our understanding of macroeconomic dynamics.

This book should be a valuable resource for all researchers interested in analyzing macroeconomic issues without recurring to a fictitious representative agent.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Crucial Issues....Pages 1-9
Stylized Facts of Industrial Dynamics: The Distribution of Firms’ Size....Pages 11-31
Stylized Facts in Industrial Dynamics: Exit, Productivity, Income....Pages 33-60
An Agent-based Model....Pages 61-93
Where Do We Go from Here?....Pages 95-103
Back Matter....Pages 105-114
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