The pur­pose of this work­shop is to bring together macro­econ­o­mists to dis­cuss and pro­mote top­i­cal empir­i­cal research on mon­e­tary eco­nom­ics. Both the finan­cial cri­sis and the sov­er­eign debt cri­sis raised impor­tant issues for the effec­tive­ness of...

Agent-based models have become an important framework for analyzing complex macroeconomic dynamics resulting from the interaction of heterogeneous agents with bounded rationality. This framework frees the modeler from the constraints imposed by the substantive rationality, equilibrium, and...