dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Dignum, F.P.M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Rademaker, C. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-18T17:00:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-18T17:00:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/28953 | |
dc.description.abstract | This work offers a synthesis between the disciplines of agent-based modeling, system-dynamics and economics. A thorough analysis and critique of the prior efforts to synthesize economics and system-dynamics by the Post-Keynesian economist Steve Keen is presented. A C# .NET library based framework for the visualization, diagnostics and analysis of system-dynamic models is provided. The work further details a modeling method based on the separation between aggregates and individuals and between strategic, logical and ethical system-dynamic variables and demonstrates this method by presenting an evolutionarily-trained multi-agent model on its basis. This model is used to explore a hypothesis in the context of an alternative interpretation of Keen's Debt-Deflation Model. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 12267776 | |
dc.format.extent | 15903099 | |
dc.format.extent | 6475900 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/zip | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/zip | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | Agent-Based System-Dynamic Economic Modeling: a Pioneering Approach | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | agent-based modeling, system-dynamics, economics, evolutionary algorithm, debt-deflation, Hyman Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Artificial Intelligence | |