Agent-Based Modeling and Institutional Design

Leigh Tesfatsion ()

Staff General Research Papers Archive from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The recent economic crisis has led to calls for a comprehensive restructuring of energy, financial, health care, and educational systems. Critics worry the restructuring of these complex institutional arrangements could produce adverse unintended consequences. Given these concerns, pre-testing of proposed changes is eminently desirable but also exceedingly difficult. This essay focuses on the potential use of agent-based modeling for studying proposed changes in institutional arrangements in advance of actual implementation. Ongoing agent-based research on the restructuring of electric power markets is used for concrete illustration.

Keywords: agent-based modeling; Institutional Design; electric power markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C6 L1 Q4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-01-15
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Published in Eastern Economic Journal 2011, vol. 37, pp. 13-19

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