THURSDAY, 18 March

Day 4 – Thursday March, 18

ESSA @ Work

09:30 – 09:40    Introduction

09:40 – 10.00    ReMoTe-S Residential Mobility of Tenants in Switzerland: an agent-based model
Presenter: Anna Pagiani
Experts: Jen Badham; Edmund Chattoe-Brown

10:05 – 10:25   Fundamental Differences in Inequality Dynamics for Simple Economies
Presenter: John Stevenson
Experts: Jen Badham; Edmund Chattoe-Brown

10:30 – 10:50   Linking Emissions Trading Systems: are price collars the way forward?
Presenter: Guilio Galdi
Experts: Jen Badham; Edmund Chattoe-Brown

10:50 – 11:05

Break

 

ESSA @ Work

11:10-11:30     PANDORA  – an Agent-Based-Model to analyze acceptance of (energy) policies, applied to policies targeting the German Heating Sector
Presenter: Alexandra Pröpper
Experts: Melania Borit; Wander Jager

11:35-11:55    An Agent-Based Model to Simulate Meat Consumption Behaviour of Brazilian Consumers
Presenter: Maira Tavares
Experts: Melania Borit; Wander Jager

12:00-12:30    Tentative title: How to use hypothesis-testing standard practices to design agent-based models
Expert lecture with Flaminio Squazzoni

12:30-12:45   Discuss & wrap up

12:45 – 13:30

Lunch break

 

TRACK ONE

Modeling Values in Agents, Institutions, and Technologies

Amineh Ghorbani, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
Anna Melnyk, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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13:30 – 15:00

Addressing new challenges in socio-technical systems requires a critical inquiry into behaviour-related concepts like values, beliefs, and norms. We will have a workshop on “Modelling Values in Agents, Technologies and Institutions” which goal is to bring together international researchers that are experimenting with qualitative concepts (e.g., values, norms, beliefs) in their agent-based models. This workshop facilitates new cross-disciplinary ABM research pathways by learning from each other’s experiences and challenges of implementing quantitative concepts like values in the modelling practice. As a concept in ABM practice, value only recently started to get deserved attention despite playing a core role in a decision making process that informs agents’ actions. Complex socio-technical challenges of the energy transition, climate change, and, in particular, the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic triggered a series of ABM research that adopts the concept of value from different domains like ethics, psychology, and anthropology. Insights into values are particularly essential when researching new technologies and policies impacts and the agent’s responses to the implementation of these. The 3-hour workshop will explore such concepts to understand better agents’ behaviours regarding technologies and institutions and a potential impact on the model’s robustness, illustrative, explanatory, and predictive power.

TRACK TWO

Applied macroeconomic analysis and modelling in complex systems

Juan Gabriel Brida, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Silvia London, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Emiliano Alvarez, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

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13:30 – 15:00

During the last half century, in conjunction with the increased availability of data and the improvement in statistical and econometric techniques, macroeconomics has increased its emphasis on empirical analysis and modelling. The application of concepts and techniques of complex systems to economics implies that many of the characteristics of these systems (self-organization, non-linearity, emergence, interdependence, adaptation, irreversibility) need a different analytical tool to be analyzed. Advances in the analysis of social networks, study of aggregate distribution functions (and the study of the occurrence of power laws), use of tools to study long memory processes in economics and sensitivity analysis generated from simulations of Agent-based models are part of the tools to study these processes. In this seminar, different studies that seek to analyze macroeconomic problems (inflation, unemployment, economic growth, inequality) will be presented under the paradigm of complexity.

15:00 – 15:15

Break

 

TRACK ONE

Modeling Values in Agents, Institutions, and Technologies

Amineh Ghorbani, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
Anna Melnyk, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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15:15 – 16:45

Addressing new challenges in socio-technical systems requires a critical inquiry into behaviour-related concepts like values, beliefs, and norms. We will have a workshop on “Modelling Values in Agents, Technologies and Institutions” which goal is to bring together international researchers that are experimenting with qualitative concepts (e.g., values, norms, beliefs) in their agent-based models. This workshop facilitates new cross-disciplinary ABM research pathways by learning from each other’s experiences and challenges of implementing quantitative concepts like values in the modelling practice. As a concept in ABM practice, value only recently started to get deserved attention despite playing a core role in a decision making process that informs agents’ actions. Complex socio-technical challenges of the energy transition, climate change, and, in particular, the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic triggered a series of ABM research that adopts the concept of value from different domains like ethics, psychology, and anthropology. Insights into values are particularly essential when researching new technologies and policies impacts and the agent’s responses to the implementation of these. The 3-hour workshop will explore such concepts to understand better agents’ behaviours regarding technologies and institutions and a potential impact on the model’s robustness, illustrative, explanatory, and predictive power.

TRACK TWO

Applied macroeconomic analysis and modelling in complex systems

Juan Gabriel Brida, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Silvia London, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Emiliano Alvarez, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

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15:15 – 16:45

During the last half century, in conjunction with the increased availability of data and the improvement in statistical and econometric techniques, macroeconomics has increased its emphasis on empirical analysis and modelling. The application of concepts and techniques of complex systems to economics implies that many of the characteristics of these systems (self-organization, non-linearity, emergence, interdependence, adaptation, irreversibility) need a different analytical tool to be analyzed. Advances in the analysis of social networks, study of aggregate distribution functions (and the study of the occurrence of power laws), use of tools to study long memory processes in economics and sensitivity analysis generated from simulations of Agent-based models are part of the tools to study these processes. In this seminar, different studies that seek to analyze macroeconomic problems (inflation, unemployment, economic growth, inequality) will be presented under the paradigm of complexity.