Emergent Macroeconomics: An Agent-Based Approach to Business Fluctuations

Crucial Issues.- Stylized Facts of Industrial Dynamics: The Distribution of Firms' Size.- Stylized Facts in Industrial Dynamics: Exit, Productivity, Income.- An Agent-based Model.- Where Do We Go from Here?.

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