Agent-Based Models: Impact and Interdisciplinary Influences in Economics

Alexandre Truc and Muriel Dal Pont Legrand
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Alexandre Truc: Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG, France

No 2024-19, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: In the present paper, we investigate the diffusion of agent-based models (ABMs) in economics using a quantitative approach to better understand how the introduction of this tool in economics influenced the structure of the field as well as research programs in recent years. Our analysis shows that the proliferation of ABMs has resulted in the emergence of diverse research subfields rather than one unified research program. Most notably, we highlight how interdisciplinarity plays a pivotal role in understanding the diversity of ways in which agent-based models are integrated into economics. While in some cases ABMs are used by economists as an imported tool to address disciplinary-oriented questions in dedicated subfields journals, in other cases ABMs are a vehicle for more interdisciplinary transfers and interactions (e.g., interdisciplinary co-authorship) that are more challenging to the traditional frontiers of economics.

Keywords: Agent-Based; Interdisciplinarity; Social Network Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B2 B21 B4 D9 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2024-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-hme, nep-hpe, nep-ino, nep-net and nep-sog
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