Why are economists sceptical about agent-based simulations?

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 355, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 103-109

  Leombruni, Roberto ^a   Richiardi, Matteo ^a  

^a LABORatorio Riccardo Revelli Centre for Employment Studies   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent based simulation; Economic methodology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

AGENT-BASED MODELS; AGENT-BASED SIMULATION; COMPUTATIONAL ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC METHODOLOGY;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 21444439083     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.02.072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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