Individual Contacts, Collective Patterns. Prato 1975-97, a story of interactions

Guido Fioretti

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Abstract: This article presents an agent-based model of an Italian textile district where thousands of small firms specialise in particular phases of fabrics production. It is an empirical model that reconstructs the communications between firms when they arrange production chains. In their turn, production chains reflect into the pattern of traffic in the geographical areas where the district extends.

Keywords: Agent-based models; industrial clusters; industrial districts; Prato. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-geo, nep-his and nep-tid
Date: 2005-04-28
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 30. Submitted to 'Environment and Planning B'
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Working Paper: Individual Contacts, Collective Patterns. Prato 1975-97, a story of interactions (2008)
Working Paper: Individual Contacts, Collective Patterns - Prato 1975-97, a Story of Interactions (2002)
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