This study reports on the model development and open-source implementation (in Java) of an agent-based computational wholesale power market organized in accordance with core FERC-recommended design features and operating over a realistically rendered transmission grid subject to congestion...

Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is roughly defined as the computational study of economies modeled as evolving decentralized systems of autonomous interacting agents. A key focus of ACE research is understanding how global regularities arise from the bottom up, through the repeated...

This study uses an agent-based test bed ("AMES") to investigate separation and volatility of locational marginal prices (LMPs) in an ISO-managed restructured wholesale power market operating over an AC transmission grid. Particular attention is focused on the dynamic and cross-sectional response...

A brief overview of agent-based computational economics (ACE) is given, followed by a synopsis of the articles included in this special issue on ACE and in a companion special issue on ACE scheduled to appear in Computational Economics.

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...

First Welfare Theorem fails to hold for standard pure exchange overlapping generations economies because no agent exploits the profit opportunities which can arise from mediating intertemporal trade. This paper modifies the standard economy by introducing an optimizing corporate intermediary...

An overview of recent work in agent-based computational economics (ACE) is provided, with a stress on the research areas highlighted in the National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium held at the Beckman Center, Irvine, California, in October 2001. Extensive annotated pointers to ACE...

This article examines the extent to which utilitarian social welfare maximization results in an egalitarian outcome for the classic n-agent cake-cutting problem when the agents are characterized by heterogenous subsistence needs as well as by heterogeneous tastes. It is shown that utilitarian...

This paper establishes that the profit-seeking activities of private intermediaries can ensure Pareto efficiency in the standard pure-exchange monetary overlapping generations economy without the need for government monetary or fiscal policy intervention. Moreover, these profit-seeking...

Why do government policymakers in open-ended dynamic economic models with period-by-period re-optimization tend to exhibit time inconsistency, in the sense that they systematically deviate in later periods from earlier planned policy paths? This article develops necessary and sufficient...