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Models for Socio-Economic Interactions

Teacher:  Fabian Aguirre 

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ECTS: 2.5
Evaluation:   one final written exam and one small project.
Previsional Place and time:  18 hours

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This course will introduce the student to the concept of modeling in the presence of complexity, which for the purpose of this course will mean heterogeneity and non-stationarity. We will start with SIR model, as a paradigmatic example of how complexity can be incorporated in a model. Then we will look at the voter model to exemplify the consequences of having a large number of interacting agents. In particular we will look at the spontaneous emergence of order. Finally we will look at more complex agent-based models and their use for economy and finance. For this part basic use of python notebooks is required as we will cover cases that can only be studied through numerical simulations.