Robert L. Axtell

Santa Fe Institute — United States

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis(22), Economic theories and models(20), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(16), Game Theory and Applications(11), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence(11)

Publications85 total

The Formation of Production Networks: How Supply Chains Arise from Simple Learning with Minimal Information
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future
Journal of Economic Literature·2025· 135 cited
An Agent-Based Model of the Housing Market Bubble in Metropolitan Washington D.C.
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024· 17 citedOpen Access
The Nash Equilibrium
SFI Press eBooks·2024
Adaptive Engagement for Undergoverned Spaces: Concepts, Challenges, and Prospects for New Approaches
RAND Corporation eBooks·2022· 7 cited
Why Agent-Based Modeling (ABM)?: ABM usefulness for Management theory creation and validation
Academy of Management Proceedings·2021
Agent‐based models with qualitative data are thought experiments, not policy engines: A commentary on Lustick and Tetlock 2021
Futures & Foresight Science·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
A network theory of inter-firm labor flows
EPJ Data Science·2020· 5 citedOpen Access
Opportunities for agent‐based modelling in human dimensions of fisheries
Fish and Fisheries·2020· 30 citedOpen Access
Eight grand challenges in socio-environmental systems modeling
Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling·2019· 198 citedOpen Access
Frictional unemployment on labor flow networks
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization·2019· 19 cited
Frictional Unemployment on Labor Flow Networks
arXiv (Cornell University)·2019Open Access
Opportunities for agent-based modeling in human dimensions of fisheries
2018· 2 citedOpen Access
A computational approach to managing coupled human–environmental systems: the POSEIDON model of ocean fisheries
Sustainability Science·2018· 49 citedOpen Access
Reevaluating the Relationship Between Transferable Property Rights and Command-and-Control Regulation 1
2018· 3 cited
Endogenous Firm Dynamics and Labor Flows via Heterogeneous Agents ✶ ✶Support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation (0738606), the Small Business Administration (SBAHQ-05-Q-0018), and the Mercatus Center at George Mason is gratefully acknowledged. I have no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper or the associated model. Earlier versions of this work were presented at research institutions (Aix-en-Provence, Arizona State, Brookings, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Esalen, Essex, George Mason, Georgia, Georgia Tech, James Madison, Leicester, Leiden, Limerick, Nanyang Technological University, New School for Social Research, Office of Financial Research, Oxford, Queen Mary and Westfield, Sant' Anna (Pisa), Santa Fe Institute, Turino) and conferences (Eastern Economic Association, INFORMS, Society for Computational Economics, Southern Economic Association) where comments from attendees yielded significant improvements. For helpful feedback on the manuscript I am grateful to Zoltan Acs, Luis Amaral, Brian Arthur, David Audretsch, Bob Axelrod, Bob Ayres, Eric Beinhocker, Margaret Blair, Pete Boettke, David Canning, Kathleen Carley, John Chisholm, Alex Coad, Herbert Dawid, Art DeVany, Bill Dickens, Kathy Eisenhardt, Joshua Epstein, Doyne Farmer, Rich Florida, Duncan Foley, Xavier Gabaix, Chris Georges, Herb Gintis, Joe Harrington, John Holland, Stu Kauffman, Steve Kimbrough, Paul Kleindorfer, Blake LeBaron, Axel Leijonhufvud, Bob Litan, Francesco Luna, Jim March, Michael Maouboussin, Greg McRae, Benoit Morel, Scott Moss, Paul Omerod, J. Barkley Rosser Jr., Martin Shubik, Gene Stanley, Dan Teitelbaum, Leigh Tesfatsion, Sid Winter and several people who are no longer with us: Per Bak, Michael Cohen, Ben Harrison, Steve Klepper, Sam Kotz, and Benoit Mandelbrot. The late Herb Simon inspired and encouraged the work. Anna Nelson and Omar Guerrero each advanced the work through their Ph.D. dissertations. Thanks are due Miles Parker and Gabriel Balan for implementing the model in Java, first in Ascape and then in Mason. Errors are my own.
Handbook of computational economics·2018· 14 cited
Where We Are Headed versus Where We Want to Go: Economic Theory at a Crossroads?
Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture·2018Open Access
Developing winning marketing strategies in a competitive software market
2017
Utilizing the positive impacts of software piracy in monopoly industries
Agent-Directed Simulation·2017· 1 cited
Utilizing the Positive Impacts of Software Piracy in Monoploy Industries
2017
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