New Approaches to Macroeconomic Modeling
Aoki, Masanao / Masanao, Aoki
This book contributes substantively to the current state of the art of macroeconomic modeling by providing a method for modeling large collections of possibly heterogeneous agents subject to nonpairwise externality called field effects, that is, feedback of aggregate effects on individual agents or agents using state-dependent strategies. By adopting a level of microeconomic description that keeps track of compositions of fractions of agents b...