NYC Computational Economics & Complexity Workshop


The NYC Computational Economics & Complexity Workshop is a regularly meeting workshop for faculty and graduate students in the New York City area interested in agent-based, heterogeneous agent, computational economics and related areas. The meetings are held at New School University. The workshop is an opportunity for researchers to present work in any stage of development in order to get feedback and discuss ideas and topics. If you would like to be added to the email contact list, email Jason Barr.


ANNOUNCEMENT
II INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
Policies for Innovation and Growth
Monday 21 September to Friday 25 September 2009
Villalago (Terni, Italy)

The deadline for submission is the 30th of june 2009.
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Spring 2009

Agent-Based Seminars at the New School for Social Research
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Tuesday, April 14th
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm

Location: Room D734
6 East 16th Street
Carl Chiarella
University of Technology, Sydney


“Heterogeneous Expectations and Exchange Rate Dynamics”

Wed. April 8
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Room G 529
80 fifth ave, Fifth floor

 Mauro Gallegati,
Università Politecnica delle Marche

Financially Constrained Fluctuations in an Evolving Network Economy (ppt)

Thursday, March 5th
4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
6 East 16th Street (near Union Square)
Room D1002

10th Floor


Gur Yarri,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 
Economic systems following a major shock: A "microscopic" point of view.

 



Tuesday, March 3rd

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Room D734

 
Shu-Heng Chen, Director, AI-ECON Research Center, Department of Economics,  National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Modularity, Product Innovation, and Consumer
Satisfaction: An Agent-Based Approach


A Functional Modularity Approach to
Agent-based Modeling of the Evolution of
Technology

 

 
Tuesday, February 24th

4:00 pm – 5:45 pm
Room D734

 
Dr. Herbert Dawid, University of Bielefeld
 
The effects of skill upgrading in the presence of spatial labor market frictions: an agent-based analysis
 

 


Agent-Based Sessions at the 2009 Eastern Economic Association Meetings

Friday, February 27

9:00am, Session 1: Agent-Based Economics: Contagion in Financial and Real Markets
11:00 am, Session 2: Agent-Based Economics: Labor & Income Distribution

2:00pm, Session 3: Agent-Based Economics: Labor & Production

4:00pm, Session 4: Agent-Based Economics: Social Networks I


Saturday, February 28

9:00am, Session 5: Agent-Based Economics: Social Networks II

11:00 am, Session 6: Agent-Based Economics: Macroeconomics & Policy

2:00 pm, Session 7: Agent-Based Economics: Credit Networks and Financial Instability

4:00pm, Session 8: Agent-Based Economics: Markets and Market Design

 


Check out our symposium on agent-based economics in the Eastern Economic Journal, 34(4), 2008.


Fall 2008

Workshop Meeting: Friday, December 19, 10:30am, New School for Social Reseach, Room D1002 (10th floor) of 6 East 16th St. Abigail Brown, University of Technology, Sidney, "The social welfare cost of fraud: evidence from an agent-based model"

Workshop Meeting:
Friday, November 14, 10:30am, New School for Social Reseach, Room 1132 on the 11th floor of 6 East 16th st in Manhattan. We will be having three short presentations:

- Loran Chollete, Norwegian School of Economics and Business, "Economic and Econometric Implications of Extreme Events"
- Sebastiano Manzan, CUNY Baruch, "Heterogeneous expectations in simple agent-based models: some empirical evidence"
- Leanne Ussher, CUNY Queens, "Mark-to-Market and Leveraged Trading in a Speculative Market: A Simulation with Zero Intelligent Agents"


Spring 2008

Agent-Based Sessions at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings, March 7 - 9 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston Massachusetts. 

 

Session 1: Spatial and Heterogeneous Interaction Models, Friday 2pm

Session 2: Social Networks, Sat. 9am

Session 3: Finance, Sat. 11am

Session 4: Macroeconomics, Sat. 2pm

Session 5: Panel: “The Future of Agent-based Economics,” Sat. 4pm


Fall 2007 Presentations

 

 

Wed. December 12

Speaker:     Loran Chollete, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Adminstration

Title:            “The Nature and Causes of Extreme Events: An Application to Subprime Market Spillovers

Location:     New School University, Room D1132, 11th floor, 79 5th Avenue (entrance on 16th Street).

Time:           4:00pm – 5:30pm

Monday, November 19 (joint with Fordham University Economics Dept.)
For more information contact: Troy Tassier
Speaker:
    Bill Gibson,
John Converse Professor of Economics, University of Vermont
Title:          A Multi-Agent Systems Approach to Microeconomics Foundations of Macro
Location:    Economics Conference Room, Dealy Hall E-530, Fordham University, Bronx New York
Time:         4:00-5:15pm

 

Wednesday, October 10 (joint with New School Economics Department)

Speaker:      Roger McCain, Drexel University

Title:            “Agent-Based Simulation of Endogenous Coalitions: Some Small-Scale Examples

Location:     New School University, Room 529 at 80 Fifth Avenue (corner of 14th Street)  

Time:           12:15pm-1:45pm

 

 

 

 

 


 Past Presentations and Organized Conference Sessions 


Organizers

Jason Barr, Rutgers University, Newark
Leanne Ussher, CUNY Queens
Troy Tassier, Fordham University
David Goldbaum, Rutgers University, Newark
Nobi Hanaki, University of Tsukuba


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Last Updated: Dec. 02, 2007