Modelling industrial dynamics with " History-friendly" simulations

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 258-275

  Garavaglia, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

" History Friendly" models; Complexity; Evolutionary economics; Industrial dynamics; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; NUMERICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77958466100     PISSN: 0954349X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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