Introduction

Work on the project is highly interdisciplinary (including agent-based modeling and economics) with international collaborations.
For more information please see the list of publications.

 Participants

• Yuri S. Mansury, Cornell University / Korea Development Institute (KDI) School
• László Gulyás, AITIA International, Inc. / Collegium Budapest
• Richard Oliver Legendi, AITIA International, Inc. / Eötvös Loránd University

News

• 2011.08: Project page is set up.

Projects

Creating an agent-based framework for core-periphery models

This study proposes a discrete, agent-based version of Fujita-Krugman-Venables (FKV)’s core-periphery model to generate both agglomeration and spatial dispersion. The model retains the key features of FKV’s model, including consumers’ love for varieties, increasing returns in production, and the tension between centripetal (agglomerating) and centrifugal (deagglomerating) forces that explain the uneven distribution of population across locations. The paper makes two main contributions. First, the agent-based framework allows us to move away from the “representative agent” paradigm into a model of heterogeneous agents. Second, the bottom-up approach enables migration to proceed in a non ad-hoc way. Both contributions rely on the mutual complementarity between FKV’s analytical model and our numerical platform.

Simulation

Resources

This research was partially supported by [TODO]. The supports are gratefully acknowledged.

Publications

• Yuri Mansury, Laszlo Gulyas, Richard O. Legendi: "Heterogeneity and Phase Transitions in An Agent-Based Model of the New Economic Geography", presentation at Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York City, Feb. 27th, 2012
• Yuri Mansury, Richard Legendi and Laszlo Gulyas: "An Agent-Based Approach to the New Economic Geography", poster at ELTE Innovation Day (2012).
• Yuri Mansury, Richard O. Legendi, Laszlo Gulyas: "Spatial Agglomeration and Dispersion: An Agent-Based Approach to the New Economic Geography", presentation at the 17th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance (June 29-July 1, 2011)  
• Mansury, Yuri and Gulyás, László (2007), "The Emergence of Zipf’s Law in a System of Cities: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach", Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 31, 7: 2438-2460. 
• Gulyás, László and Mansury, Yuri (2006), "Explaining the Zipf-Law Pattern of City Systems: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach", ournal Of Economic Dynamics and Control.
• Gulyás, László and Mansury, Yuri (2002), "Patterns of Firm Agglomeration: An Autonomous Agent-Based Model of City Formation". 
   Mansury, Yuri and Gulyás, László (2002), "Explaining The Zipf-Law Pattern of City Formation: An Agent Based Approach". 

Software Download

The simulation is available to download here (pending publication).