2004

 

Industry and Labor Dynamics II

The Agent-based Computational Economics Approach

 

Proceedings of the wild@ace 2004 conference

December 3-4, 2004

LABORatorio R. Revelli, Moncalieri, Italy

Roberto Leombruni and Matteo Richiardi editors

 

 

Index

 

Introduction

Roberto Leombruni and Matteo Richiardi

 

 

The labor market

 

 

1. Job Search Mechanism and Individual Behaviour

Massimo Giannini

 

2. Toward a Non-Equilibrium Unemployment Theory

Matteo Richiardi

 

3. Knowledge-Based Jobs and the Boundaries of Firms. Agent-based simulation of Firms Learning and Workforce Skill Set Dynamics

Edoardo Mollona and David Hales

 

4. Agent-based model in labor market as a third way to micro/macro relation: a new paradigm?

Luis Faria

 

 

Industrial dynamics

 

 

5. Network-Induced Oscillatory Behaviour of Macroeconomic Output Flows

Dirk Helbing, Ulrich Witt, Stefan Lämmer and Thomas Brenner

 

6. Effects of Demand Managements on Sector Sizes and Okun’s Law

Masanao Aoki and Hiroshi Yoshikaawa

 

7. An Evolutionary Model of Endogenous Business Cycles

Giovanni Dosi, Giorgio Fagiolo and Andrea Roventini

 

8. “Weird Ties”? Growth, Cycles and Firm Dynamics in an Agent-Based Model with Financial-Market Imperfections

Mauro Napoletano, Domenico Delli Gatti, Giorgio Fagiolo and Mauro Gallegati

 

9. Patterns of Industrial Development in Costa Rica: Empirical ‘Validation’ of a Firm–Based Growth Model

Tommaso Ciarli

 

 

Microsimulations

 

 

10. LABORsim: An Agent-Based Microsimulation of Labour Supply. An application to Italy

Roberto Leombruni and Matteo Richiardi

 

11. Generational and Gender Gaps in Labour and Pension Life-Time Incomes. The Evolution of the Labour Market and Retirement Benefits in Italy

Pietro A. Vagliasindi, Marzia Romanelli and Carlo Bianchi

 

 

Networks and clusters

 

 

12. Herding and clustering in Economics: the Yule-Zipf-Simon model

Domenico Costantini, Stefania Donadio, Ubaldo Garibaldi and Paolo Viarengo

 

13. Social Anti-Percolation, Resistance and Negative Word-of-Mouth

Tom Erez, Sarit Moldovan and Sorin Solomon

 

14. Selecting team members: a computational model for studying network dynamics

Arianna Dal Forno and Ugo Merlone

 

15. Innovation creation and diffusion in a social network: an agent based approach

Daniele Ietri and Marco Lamieri

 

16. Minority Rule Applied to Multiple Agents Linked into a Social Network with Communication and Memory

Marco Remondino and Alessandro Cappellini

 

17. Cluster-based approach to the agent-based models

Florentin Paladi