Background
Background
The 22nd annual Workshop on the Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA 2017) will be held at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, from 12th to 14th June 2017.
The 22nd annual Workshop on the Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents (WEHIA 2017) will be held at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, from 12th to 14th June 2017.
To continue the successful tradition of PhD Schools organized around the yearly Wehia conferences, the Wehia-PhD School 2017 will be organized in Genoa from June 15th to 17th, just after the conclusion of the Wehia conference in Milan to easy the participation of young scholars to both events.
The focus of the Wehia-PhD School 2017 will be on Agent-based Macroeconomics, with the purpose to provide the relevant conceptual framework for the development of large-scale agent-based macro-model about the following topics:
• Credit-driven business cycles
• Stock-flow consistent modelling
• Sustainability transition
• Estimation of agent-based models
• Policy design and validation
Students will also participate at a policy design contest using the macroeconomic model and simulator EURACE.