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simulation models are a gym tool for improving our imagination about
how the economy works. They are often ambivalent, being both business
games and economic formal models. |
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Software:
Market dynamics with firm-specific fixed and variable
costs
In this easy evolutionary model you'll find a
market with a large number of firms, each characterised by a different
cost structure, and you'll be able to study the evolution of profits
over time, according to changes in demand and endogenous technology
progress.
A key statement will relate the way demand interacts
with the kind of technological innovation
approved by top management.
Software
Essay
Software:
Race to market
Useful
for managers, researchers and students, this business game is a
powerful tool for understanding product life cycles, consumers'
attitudes, innovation management
strategies, competitive intelligent tactics, by personally playing
or by observing how artificial agents perform.
Essay
and software automatic download [2400 KB]
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You are an exporter
This business game will improve your skills in exporting, choosing
target countries, fixing prices and quantities, while surfing between
business cycles and changes in the cost structure. You'll better
understand how the exchange rate impacts on exports and imports.
Suitable
for beginners and researchers.
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it now
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Software:
Isoquants
A specialised software to draw isoquants according to the neoclassical
theory of production. A critical view of the usefulness of this
tool is proposed.
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Microfit (Econometrics)
A quite user-friendly econometrics free software for data
analysis. It allows for Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimates and
much more (e.g. Logit and Probit models, cointegration models...).
Software
Help
file
PS. Just be patient at the beginning with default
directories for data and for temporary files (to be set) and the
grammar of the very flexible equation to test.
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Software:
The Sugarscape model
A classical agent-based simulation of artificial societies with
hunger, survival, reproduction dynamics.
Download
page
It will automatically
install the Java engine if your computer does have it now.
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Software:
Dashboard of sustainability
A free software which allows to present complex relationships between
economic, social and environmental issues in a highly communicative
format aimed at decision-makers and citizens interested in Sustainable
Development.
Exe
file
Presentation
and instructions
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| Software
and Essay:
Consumer theory
This free software interactively explains you the basic microeconomic
consumer theory, while the essay shall briefly introduce you to
neoclassical tenets, suggesting some easy experiment with the computer
application.
Budget
line, indifference curves, demand curves, Engel's curves, indirect
utility functions, income and substitution effects will be no mysteries
any more.
Essay
and software
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| Software:
The production function of students' grades
An example of production function and marginal productivity, to
draw easy diagrams.
Excel
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Essay
and Software :
You are a monopolist
The traditional monopolist's choice about price and quantity is now
given a new dynamic setting where you can interact. Demand is unknown
and the produced good is durable across periods of time. Thus, sales
needn't be equal to production as inventories can pile up and go down.
A lot of strategic consequences arise, as you can discover playing
with the business game.
Software
[1900 KB]
Essay
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| Software:
The standard monopoly theory
A full-fledged presentation of a monopolist in the neoclassical
microeconomics perspective. Particularly well suited for students,
this program is part of a collection of software by Prof.
Masaru Uzawa.
Software
[320 KB]
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Software:
The IS-LM model
A Cartesian-space IS-LM model illustrating
step-by-step how the macroeconomics curves arises from points. It
reproduces what usually students learn in universities throughout
the world, offering the possibility of changing the model parameters.
It is a second example of Prof.
Masaru Uzawa's collection of software.
Software
[340 KB]
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| Book:
An Artificial Market Model of a Foreign Exchange Market - by
Kiyoshi Izumi
An
agent-based simulation is described in this book.
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| Software:
Costs
To understand costs in different microeconomic production conditions,
this software offers you a graphical representation of a wide variety
of combination of fixed-costs and variable costs (economies of scale,
dis-economies of scale...) activated by just a one-button click.
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[2050 KB]
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| Software:
Curve Expert (Econometrics)
A very user-friendly free software for fitting data
with a huge number of curves (also user-defined), not only straigt
lines. Just click on one button and the program will execute all
the estimations and will rank the results, showing which match the
data the best.
Software
Homepage
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| Software:
NLREG (Econometrics)
30-days version of a package for non-linear regressions.
Software
Manual
Homepage
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| Software:
Easyreg
Leading edge user-friendly econometric software.
Software
Homepage
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| Software:
Cointegration test and ARMA model tool
These free econometrics packages are part of a wider excellent free
collection.
ADF
unit root Explanations
ARMA
Explanations
Author's
homepage
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