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Interactive Macroeconomics

Interactive Macroeconomics

Interactive Macroeconomics

Stochastic Aggregate Dynamics with Heterogeneous and Interacting Agents
Corrado Di Guilmi, University of Technology, Sydney
Mauro Gallegati, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Simone Landini, Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemonte, Italy
April 2017
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9781107198944
$152.99
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    One of the major problems of macroeconomic theory is the way in which the people exchange goods in decentralized market economies. There are major disagreements among macroeconomists regarding tools to influence required outcomes. Since the mainstream efficient market theory fails to provide an internal coherent framework, there is a need for an alternative theory. The book provides an innovative approach for the analysis of agent based models, populated by the heterogeneous and interacting agents in the field of financial fragility. The text is divided in two parts; the first presents analytical developments of stochastic aggregation and macro-dynamics inference methods. The second part introduces macroeconomic models of financial fragility for complex systems populated by heterogeneous and interacting agents. The concepts of financial fragility and macroeconomic dynamics are explained in detail in separate chapters. The statistical physics approach is applied to explain theories of macroeconomic modelling and inference.

    • Offers statistical mechanics approach to macroeconomics
    • Discusses use of statistical mechanics in macroeconomic modeling
    • Follows a probabilistic approach for the analytical solution of agent based models
    • Systematic treatment of stochastic dynamic aggregation techniques used for multi-agent models

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    April 2017
    Hardback
    9781107198944
    302 pages
    237 × 160 × 20 mm
    0.52kg
    Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • List of tables
    • List of figures, 1. Introduction
    • Part I. Methodological Notes and Tools:
    • 2. The state space notion
    • 3. The master equation
    • Part II. Applications to HIA Based Models:
    • 4. Financial fragility and macroeconomic dynamics I: heterogeneity and interaction
    • 5. Financial fragility and macroeconomic Dynamics II: learning
    • Part III. Conclusions:
    • 6. Conclusive remarks
    • Part IV. Appendices and Complements: Appendix A: Complements to Chapter 3
    • Appendix B: Solving the ME to solve the ABM
    • Appendix C: Specifying transition rates
    • Index.