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FRIDAY 3

 

Plenary session

 

8.45

Registration

 

9.10

Conference Opening

Bruno Contini (University of Turin): Chair

Mario Montinaro (Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Turin):

 

Address to the conference participants

Pietro Terna (University of Turin): Introduction (.ppt, .pdf)
 

9.30

Robert Axtell (Brooking Institutions)

Firms as partitions of the laboring classes: Theory and data

 

10.30 Coffee break

 

11.00

Michael Neugart (Harvard University)

Endogenous matching functions: an agent-based computational approach

 

12.00

G. Dosi, R. Gabriele, G. Fagiolo (Scuola Superiore S. Anna di Pisa, Università di Trento)

The Beveridge curve between theory and empirical evidence: An investigation of aggregate labor market regularities from an evolutionary perspective

 

 

13.00 Lunch

 

 

14.30

Parallel sessions

 

INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS & FIRMS INTERACTION

 

MICROSIMULATION OF LABOR DYNAMICS

T. Ciarli, M. Valente

(University of Ferrara and University of l'Aquila)

A generalised computational model of firms production and interaction: emergent network structure and industrial development 

P. Vagliasindi, M. Romanelli, C. Bianchi

(University of Parma; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa; Department of Economics, Pisa)

 

Retirement from the labour market and its social impact. Evidence from Italy using dynamic microsimulation

Junfu Zhang

(Public Policy Institute of California)

 

Growing Silicon Valley on  a landscape: an agent-based approach to high-tech industrial clusters
 

 

M. Richiardi

(LABORatorio R.Revelli)

A localized co-ordination model of unemployment and firm demography

 


R. Boero, M. Castellani, F. Squazzoni

(University of Pavia; University of Brescia)


Division of labor and organizational structure in an industrial district prototype. An agent-based simulation

A. Dal Forno, U. Merlone

(Department of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Torino)

 

 

Modular pyramidal hierarchies and social norms. An agent-based model

 

16.30 Coffee Break

 

17.00

Parallel sessions

 

UNDERSTANDING FIRM BEHAVIOUR

 

METHODOLOGY 1

 

G. Bottazzi, A. Secchi

(Scuola Superiore S. Anna di Pisa)

 

Explaining the distribution of firm growth rates

D. Costantini, U. Garibaldi, P. Viarengo

(Department of Physics, Genoa; National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa; Department of Statistical Sciences, Bologna)

 

A finitary characterization of Ewens sampling formula


A. Kaufmann

(Systems Research Technology - Economy Environment, Seibersdorf)

 

Effects on the interaction of heterogeneous rationalities on the innovation output of firms


M. Sonnessa

(Computer Science Department, University of Turin)

 

The JAS (java agent-based simulation) library

 

T. Grebel, A. Pyka

(University of Augsburg and Austrian Research Centre)

 

Industry evolution - Modelling dynamical and cyclical sectoral development processes

D. Checchi, A. Filippin

(University of Milan, EUI and IZA)

 

An experimental study of the POUM hypothesis


 

 

 

20.00

Social dinner

 

 

 

SATURDAY 4

 

Plenary session
 

9.30

Mauro Gallegati (University of Ancona)

Firms size distribution and growth rate as determinants of business fluctuations

 

10.30 Coffee break

 

11.00

Leigh Tesfatsion (Iowa State University)

Labor institutions and the evolution of worker-employer behaviors and networks: An agent-based computational approach

 

12.00

Alan Kirman (University of Marseille)

Individual and collective behaviour: Lessons from models with interacting agents
 

 

13.00 Lunch

 

 

14.30

Parallel sessions

 

INDUSTRY STRUCTURE & INNOVATION

 

METHODOLOGY 2

 

P. Ahrweiler, A. Pyka, N. Gilbert

(University of Bielefeld, Austrian Research Centre, University of Surrey)

 

Modelling innovation networks: a two-level approach

 

R. Leombruni

(LABORatorio R. Revelli)

 

The methodological status of agent-based simulations

 

M. Khoshyaran

(Department of Economics, Catholic Universty of Leuven)

 

The role of small business based structures in promoting innovation, and creating  employment, as compared to oligopolistic  based structures

 

M. Novarese

(Centre for Cognitive Economics, University of "Piemonte Orientale")

 

Simulation, theory and experiment. Notes from an historical perspective

 

 

16.00 Coffee break

 

16.30

Panel discussion:

Sins and virtues of social simulations: Discussing about innovation networks

Chair: Nigel Gilbert (University of Surrey); Bruno Contini (University of Turin); Petra Ahrweiler (University of Bielefeld); Cristiano Antonelli (University of Turin); Ugo Colombino (University of Turin); Andreas Pyka (Austrian Reasearch Centre, Seibersdorf); Steinar Strom (University of Oslo and University of Turin)

 

 

17.30 

Conclusions & Wine Tasting Session