In this work we develop an agent-based model that offers an alternative to standard, computable
general equilibrium integrated assessment models (IAMs). The Dystopian Schumpeter …

Climate change is one of the most daunting challenges human kind has ever faced. In the
paper, we provide a survey of the micro and macro economics of climate change from a …

Which policies can increase the resilience of the financial system to climate risks? Recent
evidence on the significant impacts of climate change and natural disasters on firms, banks …

Recent evidence suggests that climate change will significantly affect economic growth and
several productive elements of modern economies, such as workers and land 1 – 4 . …

Simulated models suffer intrinsically from validation and comparison problems. The choice
of a suitable indicator quantifying the distance between the model and the data is pivotal to …

Climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of natural disasters. Does this
translate into increased economic damages? To date, empirical assessments of damage trends …

Efficiently calibrating agent-based models (ABMs) to real data is an open challenge. This
paper explicitly tackles parameter space exploration and calibration of ABMs by combining …

This paper investigates the impact of Science Parks on growth and innovativeness of affiliated
firms. Both the role and the effectiveness of these policy instruments in sustaining tenants’ …

… In order to overcome these shortcomings, Lamperti (2018b) has recently proposed a novel
information theoretic criterion, called Generalized Subtracted L-divergence (GSL-div), that …

The challenge of meeting the UNFCCC CoP21 goal of keeping global warming ‘well below
2 C and to pursue efforts towards 1.5 C’ (‘the 2–1.5 C target’) calls for research efforts to …