Brookings: Experts - Robert Axtell

Changing How We Discount to Make Public Policy More Responsive To Citizens’ Time Preferences

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Robert L. Axtell and Gregory J. McRae argue that exponential discounting of many benefit streams—particularly non-pecuniary ones—fails the 'data quality' test and should be abandoned in favor of empirically-observed hyperbolic discounting.

Social Influences and Smoking Behavior

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The objectives of this project were to conduct a comprehensive study of social influences on smoking behavior using an agent-based modeling approach.

Firm Sizes: Facts, Formulae and Fantasies

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

CSED Working Paper No.44 by Robert Axtell (February 2006)

Non-Cooperative Dynamics of Multi-Agent Teams

Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT

CSED Working Paper No. 27: Non-Cooperative Dynamics of Multi-Agent Teams

Why Agents? On the Varied Motivations for Agent Computing in the Social Sciences

Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:00:00 GMT

csed working paper 17, brookings institution, economic studies

The Emergence of Classes in a Multi-Agent Bargaining Model

Tue, 01 Feb 2000 00:00:00 GMT

The Emergence of Classes in a Multi-Agent Bargaining Model

The Emergence of Firms in a Population of Agents: Local Increasing Returns, Unstable Nash Equilibria, and Power Law Size Distributions

Tue, 01 Jun 1999 00:00:00 GMT

Paper by Robert Axtell

Coordination in Transient Social Networks: An Agent-Based Computational Model on the Timing of Retirement

Sat, 01 May 1999 00:00:00 GMT

Coordination in Transient Social Networks:

Growing Artificial Societies : Social Science From the Bottom Up

Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:00:00 GMT

How do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals? In this groundbreaking study, Joshua M. Epstein and Robert L. Axtell approach this age-old question with cutting-edge computer simulation techniques.