Front Cover -- Handbook of Computational Economics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction to the Series -- Introduction to the Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 4, Heterogeneous Agent Modeling -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Macroeconomics -- 3 Finance -- 4 Experiments -- 5...

We introduce a computational technique- precomputation of integrals - that makes it possible to construct conditional expectation functions in dynamic stochastic models in the initial stage of a solution procedure. This technique is very general: it works for a broad class of approximating...

"In conventional stochastic simulation algorithms, Monte Carlo integration and curve fitting are merged together and implemented by means of regression. We perform a decomposition of the solution error and show that regression does a good job in curve fitting but a poor job in integration, which...