Interactive-agent economies: An elucidative framework and survey of results

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 424-472

  Verbrugge, Randal ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contagion; Interacting Particle Systems; Nonergodicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041728691     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100502020060     Document Type: Review

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