Lecture slides

Both decks are below, one page per slide. Scroll inside a deck to move through it, or open it full screen to read it properly. LaTeX sources live alongside the PDFs in the repository.

Lecture 1 — Introduction to agent-based models

What an ABM is, why macroeconomics reaches for one, and the Assenza et al. (2015) model where fluctuations are entirely endogenous.

Open Lecture 1 full screen · 28 slides · PDF

Lecture 2 — Stock-flow consistent ABMs

The Poledna et al. macro ABM: agents and the input–output network, the sequence of events in a quarter, stock-flow consistent accounting, the five exogenous AR(1) processes, expectations and the Taylor rule, and forecast validation.

Open Lecture 2 full screen · 61 slides · PDF

The tutorial notebooks follow Lecture 2 closely — each one names the slides it covers.