Agent-based Models of the Economy

Part I. Concepts and Methods

1. A Few Good Reasons to Favor Agent-based Modeling in Economic Analyses
Riccardo Boero

2. From Complexity to Agents and Their Models
Pietro Terna

3. Introducing the Swarm-Like Agent Protocol in Python (SLAPP)
Pietro Terna

Part II. Applications

4. Studying Human Capital Development via Models of Interaction in School Classes
Pietro Terna

5. Production Organization, Recipes, and Networks, with a Few Steps in Network Analysis
Pietro Terna

6. Simulating an Interbank Payment System
Pietro Terna

7. Bottom-Up Approach to Process and Organization Designing of Consulting Firms
Michele Sonnessa

8. Evaluating the Introduction of Deductibles in the Health Insurance System
Michele Sonnessa, Elena Tànfani, Angela Testi

9. Ex-Ante Evaluation of Public Policies: Unintended Results of Broadband Development
Riccardo Boero

10. Economic Impacts of Lack of Coordination in the Governance of Public Policies
Riccardo Boero

11. Agent-based Dynamic Optimization of Fiscal Systems
Matteo Morini, Simone Pellegrino

12. The Emergence of Cooperation
Matteo Morini

Keywords: Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Knowledge Management, Health Economics, Economic Systems