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ECONOMIC / ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM INTERACTION
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2003
This work is focused on identifying the relationship an economic system and its policies have with the environment. The biosphere is chosen in particular as object of analysis but this can be extended by means of an ecosystem recursive properties. The common factor involved in the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062749
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Strategies for Implementing Change: An Experiential Approach
Armstrong, JS - EconWPA - 2004
producing change in any of the fourteen role-playing trials. However, with ten minutes of instruction in the ”Delta Technique …,” 86% of the subjects were successful in introducing change in another fourteen role-playing trials. The ”Delta Technique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119358
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Corporate Governance as an instrument of change state owned Corporate Governance as an instrument of change state owned companies: The case of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organ...
Spanos, Loukas; Papoulias, Demetrios - EconWPA - 2005
mechanisms as instruments of change. It is argued that the privatization of state-owned companies, when is accompanied with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561676
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The intermingling between cognitive economics and experimental
Novarese, Marco; Rizzello, Salvatore - EconWPA - 2004
methodological issues. Then the attention is focused on the relevance of the experimental method for the analysis of learning and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076658
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Genetic Action Trees A New Concept for Social and Economic Simulation
Pitz, Thomas; Chmura, Thorsten - EconWPA - 2005
modelling the formation and change of patterns of action in social systems with the help of Multi-Agent Simulations. The … which one can describe the learning behaviour of agents and the changes in action spaces. Using the extremely simplified … monetary economy because of the higher effectiveness or that they change their behaviour towards actions of fraud. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076915
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Agent-Based Computational Economics
Tesfatsion, Leigh - EconWPA - 2002
Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is the computational study of economies modeled as evolving systems of autonomous interacting agents. Starting from initial conditions, specified by the modeler, the computational economy evolves over time as its constituent agents repeatedly interact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076916
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A Study of Neo-Austrian Economics using an Artificial Stock Market
Benink, Harald A.; Gordillo, Jose Luis; Pardo, Juan Pablo; … - EconWPA - 2004
An agent-based artificial financial market (AFM) is used to study market efficiency and learning in the context of the … there are many coexisting signals. Learning is introduced by considering 'copycat' traders that learn the relative values of … the different strategies in the market and copy the most successful one. We show how such learning leads to a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077021
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Multi-Unit Auctions to Allocate Water Scarcity Simulating Bidding Behaviour with Agent Based Models
Hailu, Atakelty; Thoyer, Sophie - EconWPA - 2005
Multi-unit auctions are promising mechanisms for the reallocation of water. The main advantage of such auctions is to avoid the lumpy bid issue. However, there is great uncertainty about the best auction formats when multi-unit auctions are used. The theory can only supply the structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124870
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Individual learning and team functioning
Novarese, Marco - EconWPA - 2004
This paper aims at studying the effects of learning - seen as a possible source of individual heterogeneity - on team … strategies learned in the past, to the new situations faced. Learning processes, yet, are not based on the mechanical repetition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125572
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Toward a Cognitive Experimental Economics
Novarese, Marco - EconWPA - 2002
This paper aims to analyze and exemplify some methodological implications on the way to conduct experiments related to the adoption of a cognitive approach in Economics. Many differences arise in relation to a more traditional way. In fact cognitive economics has strong descriptive attention and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125579