This report presents, motivates, and illustrates the use of a computational laboratory for the investigation of evolutionary trade network formation among strategically interacting buyers, sellers, and dealers. The computational laboratory, referred to as the Trade Network Game Laboratory (TNG...

This study provides a detailed discussion of the C++ implementation of the Trade Network Game (TNG), a computational framework for studying the formation and evolution of trade networks in buyer-seller markets modeled as decentralized systems of autonomous strategically interacting agents with...

 We develop a reputation model to study the concurrent use of trademarks and certification for food products with a regional identity, known as geographical indications (GIs). The model extends Shapiro’s (1983) approach to modeling reputation to a situation in which two technologies for the...