Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents: A Practical Guide to Agent-Based Modeling (New Economic Windows)

This book offers a practical guide to Agent Based economic modeling, adopting a “learning by doing” approach to help the reader master the fundamental tools needed to create and analyze Agent Based models. After providing them with a basic “toolkit” for Agent Based modeling, it present and discusses didactic models of real financial and economic systems in detail. 

While stressing the main features and advantages of the bottom-up perspective inherent to this approach, the book also highlights the logic and practical steps that characterize the model building procedure. A detailed description of the underlying codes, developed using R and C, is also provided. In addition, each didactic model is accompanied by exercises and applications designed to promote active learning on the part of the reader. Following the same approach, the book also presents several complementary tools required for the analysis and validation of the models, such as sensitivity experiments, calibration exercises, economic network and statistical distributions analysis.

By the end of the book, the reader will have gained a deeper understanding of the Agent Based methodology and be prepared to use the fundamental techniques required to start developing their own economic models.

Accordingly, “Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents” will be of particular interest to graduate and postgraduate students, as well as to academic institutions and lecturers interested in including an overview of the AB approach to economic modeling in their courses.

本書提供了一個實用的代理人經濟建模指南，採用「學以致用」的方法，幫助讀者掌握創建和分析代理人經濟模型所需的基本工具。在為他們提供代理人建模的基本「工具包」後，本書詳細介紹和討論了真實金融和經濟系統的教學模型。

在強調這種方法所固有的自下而上觀點的主要特點和優勢的同時，本書還突出了構建模型的邏輯和實際步驟。同時還提供了使用R和C開發的底層代碼的詳細描述。此外，每個教學模型都附有練習和應用，旨在促進讀者的主動學習。按照相同的方法，本書還介紹了幾種用於模型分析和驗證的補充工具，例如敏感性實驗、校準練習、經濟網絡和統計分佈分析。

通過閱讀本書，讀者將更深入地了解代理人經濟學方法論，並準備好使用開發自己經濟模型所需的基本技術。

因此，《異質互動代理人經濟學》對研究生和博士生特別感興趣，同時也對希望在課程中包含代理人經濟建模方法概述的學術機構和講師具有吸引力。