12. The Emergence Of Cooperation / 1. A Few Good Reasons to Favor Agent-Based Modeling in Economic Analyses / Matteo Morini. 2. From Complexity to Agents and Their Models / Pietro Terna; 3. Introducing the Swarm-Like 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 Tanfani, and 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 and Simone Pellegrino; 12. The Emergence Of Cooperation / Matteo Morini.
Summary:
"Agent-Based Models Of The Economy uses agent-based models for understanding a broad spectrum of economic phenomena. This book aim is twofold. First, it introduces the reader to the methodology and to the technicalities and the tools necessary to master the creation of agent-based models. Second, it presents several examples of applications to different economic phenomena where agent-based models are crucial in answering the research question and in solving practical problems emerged in business and policy domains (e.g., financial markets, cooperation dynamics, public policy evaluation). With this book, readers learn what agent-based models are and the advantages they can provide. Further, readers learn how to develop from scratch and with scientific rigor their own agent-based models for studying economic phenomena. Finally, readers find in the book several applications that can represent examples to be imitated and to be kept as reference. "-- Provided by publisher.
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