This summer I was able to visit two summer schools in Italy. Both focused on agent-based (ABM) modeling in macroeconomics, and covered two of the most important paradigms in macro ABM modeling: the K+S model and the CATS model.
In the beginning of September, a selection of our team traveled to Glasgow, Scotland to attend the yearly Social Simulation Conference, organised by the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). The conference gathers researchers from the social simulation and agent-based modelling fields and is a great community for collaboration, exchange and networking. It was great to...