Financial fragility, industrial dynamics, and business fluctuations in an agent-based model

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 62-79

  Gatti, Domenico Delli ^a   di Guilmi, Corrado ^b   Gallegati, Mauro ^b   Giulioni, Gianfranco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent Based Model; Business Fluctuations; Firms' Sizes Distribution; Power Law Distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010090213     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136510050706018X     Document Type: Article

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