Heterogenous Agents, Interactions and Economic Performance

Abstract

I. Learning, Adaptation and Complex Dynamics.- Heterogeneous, Boundedly Rational Agents in the Cournot Duopoly.- Adaptive Coordination and Aggregate Efficiency in Minority Games.- Heterogeneous Models with Learning and Homoclinic Bifurcations.- Learning to Compete and Coordinate in a Complex World.- A Model of Distributed Markets with Heterogeneous Agents.- II. Micro Foundations of Macro Behaviour.- An Exact Physical Approach to Market Participation Models.- Financial Fragility, Heterogeneous Agents' Interaction, and Aggregate Dynamics.- Heterogeneous Interacting Economic Agents and Stochastic Games.- Modeling Behavioral Heterogeneity in Demand Theory.- III. Social Interactions and Networks.- The Joint Dynamics of Networks and Knowledge.- Stable Hedonic Networks.- A Dynamic Model of Job Networking and Persistent Inequality.- Bandwagon Effects on Female Labour Force Participation: An Application to the Netherlands.- Interacting Agents and Continuous Opinions Dynamics.- IV. Finance.- An Interacting-Agent Model of Financial Crises.- Mean Field Effects and Interaction Cycles in Financial Markets.- The Genoa Artificial Stock Market: Microstructure and Simulations.- V. Growth and Dynamics.- A Simple Quantity Adjustment Model of Economic Fluctuations and Growth.- The Phillips Curve as an Attractor in a Dynamic Macroeconomic Model.- Technical Progress in a Dynamic Input-Output Model with Heterogenous Labour.