Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems: The Generative Method in Economics

Hernández, Cesáreo; Posada, Marta; López-Paredes, Adolfo

Simulation is used in economics to solve large econometric models, for large-scale micro simulations, and to obtain numerical solutions for policy design in top-down established models. But these applications fail to take advantage of the methods offered by artificial economics (AE) through artificial intelligence and distributed computing. AE is a bottom-up and generative approach of agent-based modelling developed to get a deeper insight into the complexity of economics. AE can be viewed as a very elegant and general class of modelling techniques that generalize numerical economics, mathematical programming and micro simulation approaches. The papers presented in this book address methodological questions and applications of AE to macroeconomics, industrial organization, information and learning, market dynamics, finance and financial markets.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2009-08-26

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783642029554

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02956-1

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 268