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.