Introduction to agent-based economics -- Decentralized interacting macroeconomics and the agent-based "modellaccio" -- AD-AS representation of macroeconomic emergent properties -- Heterogeneity in macroeconomics: DSGE and agent-based model approach -- Early warning indicator for crises in an...

Front Cover -- Introduction to Agent-Based Economics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Part I Introduction -- 1 An Introduction to Agent-Based Computational Macroeconomics -- References -- Part II Macroeconomic Agent-Based Computational Economics -- 2 Decentralized...

Standard macroeconomics, based on a reductionist approach centered on the representative agent, is badly equipped to explain the empirical evidence where heterogeneity and industrial dynamics are the rule. In this paper we show that a simple agent-based model of heterogeneous financially fragile...

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 --...