Abstract:We present an adaptation of a new Keynesian model into an agent-based computational model, accounting for the importance of heterogeneity, interaction and bounded rationality in problems such as price setting and expectations formation. We evaluate the evolution of the distribution of price setting strategy frequencies, which agents might choose on each period between inflationary, neutral or deflationary, a process based on private and social features of agents’ utility functions. In addition, we consider the… Show more
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