Debt, deleveraging and business cycles: An agent-based perspective

Economics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Raberto, Marco ^a   Teglio, Andrea ^b   Cincotti, Silvano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agent based computational economics; Credit money; Debt; Economic crisis; Leverage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865101631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18646042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2012-27     Document Type: Article

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