Most theoretical studies of corruption develop micro models of individual acts while empirical papers study corruption at the country level. We build an agent-based model to provide the missing link between these two groups. Here the societal corruption level is derived from individual corruption levels optimally chosen by agents with varying risk aversion and human capital. It, in turn, affect...

This article is concerned with identification problem of parameters of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models with emphasis on structural constraints, so that the number of observable variables is equal to the number of exogenous variables. We derived a set of identifiability conditions and suggested a procedure for a thorough analysis of identification at each point in the parameters sp...

We present a general methodology to automate the search for equilibrium strategies in games derived from computational experimentation. Our approach interleaves empirical game-theoretic analysis with reinforcement learning. We apply this methodology to the classic Continuous Double Auction game, conducting the most comprehensive CDA strategic study published to date. Empirical game analysis con...

The attempt to make economics computational is not new, given that economics is by nature both mathematical and quantitative. The use of computational models is so prevalent that one can hardly see the need to disentangle a field called computational economics from other branches of economics, let alone even bother to ask what it is. On their Web site, the Society of Computational Economics pro...

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1. GENERAL COMPETITIVE EQUILIBRIUM 1.1. Economic system. An economic system is a collection of consumers, firms, and products and the environment in which they make decisions. We summarize this information as follows. 1.1.1. The economic environment. The actions taken by any agent depend on the opportunities presented to that agent. These opportunities depend on the economic environment of the ...

Scientific codes are an indispensable link between theory and experiment; in (astro-)plasma physics, such numerical tools one window into the universe's most extreme flows of energy. The discretization Maxwell's equations - needed to make highly magnetized (astro)physical plasma amenable its modeling introduces diffusion. It acts as a source dissipation independent system's physical constituent...