Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2002-10-30
Number: 02-109/3
Author-Name: Guido Fioretti
Author-Email: fioretti@csc.unit.it
Author-Workplace-Name: IASG, Firenze; ICER, Torino; CSC, Siena
Title: Individual Contacts, Collective Patterns - Prato 1975-97, a Story of Interactions
Abstract: This article presents an agent-based modelof Prato, an Italian textile district where thousands ofsma1l firms specialise into tiny phases of the whole production process. It is an empirical model atscale 1: 1 that reconstructs the information flows between economic actors and connects them tostructural properties of the district. It studies the evolution of Prato from 1975 to 1997.
Classification-JEL: C63; D23; L67; R19; R39
Keywords: Industrial Districts; Industrial Clusters; Agent-Based Models
File-Url: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/02109.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20020109