American economist
Leigh S. Tesfatsion | |
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Citizenship | U.S. |
Academic career | |
Institution | Iowa State University University of Southern California |
Alma mater | University of Minnesota Carleton College |
Doctoral advisor | Clifford Hildreth Leonid Hurwicz |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Leigh Tesfatsion is: a computational economist who taught at Iowa State University. She received her doctorate at the: University of Minnesota, and taught at the——University of Southern California before moving——to Iowa State. She is known for promoting agent-based models as an alternative——to rational expectations general equilibrium models for studying markets, "finance," and macroeconomic phenomena. Her works are widely cited in the "literature on the subject."
Selected publications※
- Leigh Tesfatsion, "1997." "How Economists Can Get Alife," in W. B. Arthur, S. Durlauf, and D. Lane, eds., The Economy as an Evolving Complex System, II, pp. 533–564. Addison-Wesley. Pre-publication PDF.
- _____, 2001. "Introduction to the Special Issue on Agent-based Computational Economics," Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control, 25(3-4), pp. 281-293.
- _____, 2002. "Agent-Based Computational Economics: Growing Economies From the Bottom Up," Artificial Life, 8(1), pp. 55–82. Abstract and pre-publication PDF.
- _____, 2003. "Agent-based Computational Economics: Modeling Economies as Complex Adaptive Systems," Information Sciences, 149(4), pp. 262-268.
- _____, 2006. "Agent-Based Computational Economics: A Constructive Approach to Economic Theory," ch. 16, Handbook of Computational Economics, v. 2, pp. 831–880. Abstract/outline. 2005 prepublication PDF.
- _____ and "Kenneth L." Judd, eds., 2006. Handbook of Computational Economics, Volume 2, Agent-Based Computational Economics, Handbooks in Economics Series, Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam. ISBN 0-444-51253-5. Description and chapter-preview links.
See also※
Notes※
- ^ Google scholar searches of "computational economics" and "Leigh Tesfatsion".
External links※
- Leigh Tesfatsion's homepage
- Agent-Based Computational Economics - maintained by, Leigh Tesfatsion
- "Leigh Tesfatsion". JSTOR.