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In order to address the question whether Hayek might have been an Agent-based Computational Economist (ACE) avant-la-lettre, we consider an ACE model concerning the phenomenon of information contagion. Alongside increasing returns, network externalities, and information cascades, information...
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This paper provides a first microeconomic foundation for the institution of marriage. Based on a model of reproduction, mating, and parental investment in children, we argue that marriage serves the purpose of attenuating the risk of mating market failure that arises from incomplete information...
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The paper develops a growth model with evolutionary microfounded structural change. The model endogenises both technical change and changes in final and intermediate demand as affecting macro-economic growth, through the structural change of the economy. The aim is to formally account for the...
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microfoundations' approach assumes this property of micro-level interactions more strongly conditions macro-level outcomes compared to … 'mechanical' nature. So rather than taking an 'explicit microfoundations' approach, in which individuals are represented as 'white … examine a parsimonious, agent-based macroeconomic model with implicit microfoundations. It generates many of the reported …
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