Individual Contacts, Collective Patterns - Prato 1975-97, a Story of Interactions

Guido Fioretti

No 02-109/3, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers from Tinbergen Institute

Abstract: This article presents an agent-based modelof Prato, an Italian textile district where thousands ofsma1l firms specialise into tiny phases of the whole production process. It is an empirical model atscale 1: 1 that reconstructs the information flows between economic actors and connects them tostructural properties of the district. It studies the evolution of Prato from 1975 to 1997.

Keywords: Industrial Districts; Industrial Clusters; Agent-Based Models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 D23 L67 R19 R39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-10-30
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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 (2005)
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