Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents

Abstract

PartI: Social Networks.- A Simple Model of Fads and Cascading Failures on Sparse Switching Networks.- Self Organised Criticality in Economic and Social Networks - The Case of Innovation Diffusion.- Social Percolators and Self Organized Criticality.- Lock-out in Social Networks.- Cooperation, Adaptation and the Emergence of Leadership.- PartII: From micro to macro behaviours.- Technology Diffusion, Stability and Decay: Some Results.- On Dynamic Re-Specifications of Kiyotaki-Wright Model.- Industrial Dynamics with Quasi-Zero Intelligence Interacting Firms.- PartIII: Finance.- Stability of Pareto-Zipf Law in Non-stationary Economies.- Toy Models of Markets with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents.- Price Bubbles and the Long Run Profitability of a Trend Following Technical Trading Rule.- Firms' Financial Heterogeneity and Business Cycles.- PartIV: Coalitions.- Stable Coalition Structures with Fixed Decision Scheme.- Coalition Formation with Heterogeneous Agents.- Location Games with Externalities.- V: Interactions and Knowledge.- Simon says... What ? - Rationality of Imitation in a Simonian Perspective.- Interacting Individuals and Organizations: a Case Study on Cooperations Between Firms and Research Laboratories.- Organisational Innovation, Communities of Practice and Epistemic Communities: the Case of Linux.- Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Diffusion and Network Structure.