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Heterogenous Agents, Interactions and Economic Performance

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Robin Cowan

    1. MERIT, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  2. Nicolas Jonard

    1. CNRS, CREA, Paris, France

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 521)

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Table of contents (20 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Learning, Adaptation and Complex Dynamics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Heterogeneous, Boundedly Rational Agents in the Cournot Duopoly

      • F. Alkemade, J. A. La Poutré
      Pages 3-17

    3. Adaptive Coordination and Aggregate Efficiency in Minority Games

      • G. Bottazzi, G. Devetag, G. Dosi
      Pages 19-42

    4. Heterogeneous Models with Learning and Homoclinic Bifurcations

      • I. Foroni, L. Gardini
      Pages 43-59

    5. Learning to Compete and Coordinate in a Complex World

      • M. Marsili, R. Mulet, F. Ricci-Tersenghi
      Pages 61-74

    6. A Model of Distributed Markets with Heterogeneous Agents

      • T. Płatkowski, M. Ramsza
      Pages 75-88

  3. Micro Foundations of Macro Behaviour

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
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    2. An Exact Physical Approach to Market Participation Models

      • U. Garibaldi, M. A. Penco, P. Viarengo
      Pages 91-103

    3. Financial Fragility, Heterogeneous Agents’ Interaction, and Aggregate Dynamics

      • G. Giulioni, D. Delli Gatti, M. Gallegati
      Pages 105-118

    4. Heterogeneous Interacting Economic Agents and Stochastic Games

      • P. J.-J. Herings, R. J. A. P. Peeters
      Pages 119-135

    5. Modeling Behavioral Heterogeneity in Demand Theory

      • I. Maret
      Pages 137-152

  4. Social Interactions and Networks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. The Joint Dynamics of Networks and Knowledge

      • R. Cowan, N. Jonard, J.-B. Zimmermann
      Pages 155-174

    3. Stable Hedonic Networks

      • G. Haeringer
      Pages 175-191

    4. A Dynamic Model of Job Networking and Persistent Inequality

      • B. V. Krauth
      Pages 193-204

    5. Bandwagon Effects on Female Labour Force Participation: An Application to the Netherlands

      • M. C. M. Vendrik
      Pages 205-223

    6. Interacting Agents and Continuous Opinions Dynamics

      • G. Weisbuch, G. Deffuant, F. Amblard, J.-P. Nadal
      Pages 225-242

  5. Finance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. An Interacting-Agent Model of Financial Crises

      • T. Kaizoji
      Pages 245-258
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About this book

In traditional economics models of perfect competition agent's interactions are all mediated through the market. Interactions are anonymous, global and indirect. This is a powerful model, but we see many instances in which one, and sometimes all, of the previous characteristics fail to hold true. The type of agent you are, or your identity, can affect the type of interaction we have, and most surely the relationship between micro-behaviour and macro-phenomena in non-trivial ways. This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 6th Workshop on Economics with Heterogenous Interacting Agents (WEHIA). The contributions show that work done in other fields like evolutionary biology, statistical mechanics, social network theory and others help us to understand the way in which economic systems operate. Virtually all of the papers presented in this volume draw on some aspect or other of these varied approaches to related problems.

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From the reviews:

"This volume is a collection of papers presented at the sixth annual Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA) that was held in Maastricht. … A nice aspect of this … book is that at several points the reader gets a direct comparison of substantially different approaches to develop models that deal with similar economic issues. … Overall, this is a very interesting and useful book. The editors have been successful in attracting a strong group of active and original contributors … ." (Herbert Dawid, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, June, 2005)

Editors and Affiliations

  • MERIT, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Robin Cowan

  • CNRS, CREA, Paris, France

    Nicolas Jonard

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Heterogenous Agents, Interactions and Economic Performance

  • Editors: Robin Cowan, Nicolas Jonard

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55651-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-44057-4Published: 13 November 2002

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55651-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8442

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-9957

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 341

  • Topics: Economics, general, Sociology, general

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