Advances in Artificial Economics

Does Collaboration Pay? An Investigation for the Domain of Distributed Investment Decisions.- Why Do Firms Exist?- The "Win-Continue, Lose-Reverse" Rule in Cournot Oligopolies: Robustness of Collusive Outcomes.- Organizational Change for Its Own Sake? Results of an Agent-Based Simulation.- Best Practices in Programming Agent-Based Models in Economics and Finance.- Building Artificial Economies: From Aggregate Data to Experimental Microstructure. A Methodological Survey.- Spontaneous Segregation of Agents Across Double Auction Markets.- The J-Curve and Transaction Taxes: Insights from an Artificial Stock Market.- What Is the Impact of Heterogeneous Knowledge About Fundamentals on Market Liquidity and Efficiency: an ABM Approach.- An Agent Based Propagation Model of Bank Failures.- Direct vs. Side Effects in Financial Contagion: What Weights More?- Saudis and Expats - an Agent-Based Model of the Saudi Arabian Labor Market.- Forbidding Fixed Duration Contracts: Unfolding the Opposing Consequences with a Multi-agent Model of the French Labor Market.- ​Shadow Economy and Wealth Distribution.- Distribution Effects of Extortion Racket Systems.- Impacts on Stability of Interdependencies Between Markets in a Cobweb Model.- Detecting Key Variables in System Dynamics Modelling by Using Social Network Metrics.- Trade-in Programs in the Context of Technological Innovation with Herding.- Evaluating Scenarios for Upgrading Sustainability of the Meat Supply Chain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319095773
• ISBN13: 9783319095776
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"