1am for me, so I'll have to pass. But if there's a recording, perhaps... On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 01:52:16AM -0600, Stephen Guerin wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Computational Social Science Society of the Americas < > [email protected]> > Date: Fri, Mar 28, 2025, 7:10 PM > Subject: CSSSA April Webinar > To: <[email protected]> > > > View this email in your browser > [b9131985-d979-df05-b1f4-f6cac] > Dear CSSSA members, > We are very excited to host Robert Axtell and Doyne > Farmer discussing “Agent-Based Modeling in the Economics and Finence” in our > 2025 webinar series on Wednesday, April 2nd, at 10 am (ET) . Click here to > register for the webinar > > > [bf305e05-4eca-feb8-a815-31cebe51cc84] > > > > > Abstract > In a long paper in the Journal of Economic Literature Axtell and Farmer review > agent-based modeling (ABM) in economics and finance and highlight how it can > be > used to relax conventional assumptions in standard models. ABM has enriched > the > understanding of markets, industrial organization, labor, macro, development, > and environmental economics. In finance, substantial accomplishments include > understanding clustered volatility, market impact, systemic risk, and housing > markets. A vision is presented for how ABMs might be used in the future to > build more realistic models of the economy. Hurdles that must be overcome to > achieve this are discussed. Their paper includes more than 800 references > including many from adjacent fields. > > Biographs > Professor Axtell is the author, with Joshua Epstein, of Growing Artificial > Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up (MIT Press). His research has > appeared in Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, > as well as in leading field-specific journals such as The Journal of Economic > Literature, The American Economic Review, The Economic Journal, and many > others. His research has been reprised in newspapers (e.g., Wall St. Journal, > Los Angeles Times, Washington Post) and science magazines (e.g., Scientific > American, Technology Review, Wired). For the past decade he has been using > microdata on individuals to build large-scale models of the Financial Crisis > of > 2008-9 (with JD Farmer, Oxford, and J Geanakoplos, Yale), the dynamics of > business firms (with O Guerrero, Turing Institute), and natural resource > exploitation, e.g., fisheries (with UC Santa Barbara, Oxford, and the Ocean > Conservancy). The research on companies is described at length in a > forthcoming > book, ‘Dynamics of Firms from the Bottom Up: Data, Theories, and Models’, due > out next year, which uses U.S. micro-data on firm sizes, ages, growth rates, > networks, and locations to create a model at 1:1 scale with the American > economy. > > Prof. Doyne Farmer is an American complex systems scientist and entrepreneur > with interests in chaos theory, complexity and econophysics. He has published > papers in Science and Nature as well as leading economics journals like the > Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. He is Baillie Gifford Professor > of > Complex Systems Science at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, > Oxford University, where he is also director of the Complexity Economics > programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin > School. 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