The present work analyzes the individual behavior in an experimental asset market in which the only task of each player is to predict the future price of an asset. To form their expectations, players see the past realization of the asset price in the market and the current information about the...

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...

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...

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 --...