[FRIAM] Fwd: CSSSA April Webinar

Sat Mar 29 18:22:57 EDT 2025

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:
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> 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
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> 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. Additionally, he is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
> His current research is on complexity economics, focusing on systemic risk in
> financial markets and technological progress. He has recently published a book
> entitled ‘Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World.’
> 
> CSSSA Secretary is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
> 
> Topic: CSSSA April Webinar
> Time: Apr 2, 2025 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
> Join Zoom Meeting
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