The paper builds upon the Agent Based-Stock Flow Consistent model presented in Caiani et al. (2015) to analyze the relationship between income and wealth inequality and economic development. For this sake, the original model has been amended under three main dimensions: first, the households...

This paper is aimed at investigating the effects of government intervention through unemployment benefits on macroeconomic dynamics in an agent based decentralized matching framework. The major result is that the presence of such a public intervention in the economy stabilizes the aggregate...

We explore the properties of a credit network characterized by inside credit - i.e. credit relationships connecting downstream (D) and upstream (U) firms - and outside credit - i.e. credit relationships connecting firms and banks. The structure of the network changes over time due to the...

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...