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Jon Parker, assistant director of modeling & simulation, receives the award for CSED’s Large-Scale Agent Model from NTSA president, Rear Admiral Fred Lewis.

Save to My Portfolio CSED’s Large-Scale Agent Model Wins “Outstanding” Award

On March 11, 2008, The Brookings Center on Social and Economic Dynamics Large-Scale Agent Model won the 2008 Modeling & Simulation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Analysis from the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA). Read More

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Save to My Portfolio Agent-Based Modeling and Spatial Population Dynamics

Friday, December 07, 2007
12:00 PM to 05:00 PM
Washington, DC

The Brookings Center on Social and Economic Dynamics and the Metropolitan Policy Program jointly hosted an NICHD funded Agent Based Modeling and Spatial Population Dynamics Workshop at the Brookings Institution. Researchers from across the country attended the workshop to discuss current projects, to gain insight into agent-based modeling, and to unearth issues for future research collaboration. Read More

Demographics, Social Norms, Migration, Agent-based Models

SPOTLIGHT: Social Norms


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Save to My Portfolio On Obesity

Ross A. Hammond and Joshua M. Epstein, August 2007

To counteract the rapidly growing epidemic of obesity, better understanding of its drivers are needed—understand not just what factors play a role, but how and why they matter. In a new working paper, Ross A. Hammond and Joshua M. Epstein present findings that the physiology of dieting and socially influenced weight changes are two important factors in improving prevention. Read More

Social Norms, Agent-based Models

SPOTLIGHT: Social Norms


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Save to My Portfolio Coupled Contagion Dynamics of Fear and Disease

Joshua M. Epstein, Jon Parker, Derek Cummings and Ross A. Hammond, October 2007

Infectious disease such as the “Superbug” or MRSA bacterium can generate “contagions of fear” both with and without accompanying epidemics. In this new working paper, CSED researchers investigate the impact these epidemics of fear have on the spread of infectious diseases. Read More

Social Norms, Agent-based Models

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio Social Norms and Public Policy

H. Peyton Young, October 2007

H. Peyton Young suggests that differences in social norms may help to explain puzzling differences in group behavior that are not readily attributable to differences in income, tastes, and other individual characteristics. Read More

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio A Hybrid Epidemic Model

Georgiy Bobashev, Joshua M. Epstein, D. Michael Goedecke, Feng Yu, Winter 2007

With Feng Yu, Senior Fellow Josh Epstein and Nonresident Fellows Georgiy V. Bobashev and D. Michael Goedecke introduce a hybrid Agent-based and Equation-based model that can dramatically save time and can better describe epidemiological processes involving human behavioral response. Read More

Research and Commentary

Save to My Portfolio The Hedge Fund Game

Dean P. Foster, H. Peyton Young, November 2007

Dean P. Foster and H. Peyton Young examine theoretical properties of incentive contracts within the hedge fund industry.

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Save to My Portfolio Generative Social Science

In Generative Social Science, the recently published book from Princeton University Press, Josh Epstein describes agent-based computational modeling, a groundbreaking research technique.

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Recent Research and Commentary

Health Care A Complex Systems Approach to Understanding and Combating the Obesity Epidemic

Ross A. Hammond, June 17, 2008

Agent-based Models Artificial Society: Getting Clues on How a Pandemic Might Happen by Creating a Huge Model of the United States

Joshua M. Epstein, April 02, 2008

Agent-based Models Q&A With Joshua Epstein on Computational Modeling

Joshua M. Epstein, March 19, 2008

Agent-based Models Agent-Based Modeling: New Methods in Estimating Impact

Shubha Chakravarty, April 15, 2008

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Q&A with Josh Epstein

Computational Modeling

"A high school math teacher in Omaha, Nebraska should be interested in the work at the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics because it makes the study of social dynamics fascinating ... And it’ll make kids thrilled with questions like, how do epidemics spread, how do fads start and stop, what are the spatial dynamics of disease, of violence, of all sorts of things .. "

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Spotlight

ExpertJeffrey A. Bader

Jeffrey Bader worked at the State Department, the National Security Council, and the United States Trade Representative’s office during his 27-year career with the U.S. Government. He is an expert on U.S.-China relations and director of the John L. Thornton China Center.

ExpertMartin Neil Baily

Martin Baily, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, focuses on issues of globalization, productivity and competitiveness, Social Security reform and U.S. economic policy.

ExpertRichard C. Bush III

Richard Bush’s two-decade public service career spans Congress, the intelligence community and the U.S. State Department. Director of the Center on Northeast Asian Policy Studies, he currently focuses on China-Taiwan relations, U.S.-China relations, the Korean peninsula and Japan’s security.

Policy CenterEngelberg Center for Health Care Reform

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state and local levels.

Policy CenterCenter for Northeast Asian Policy Studies

CNAPS conducts research, analysis, and outreach designed to enhance policy development and understanding on the pressing political, economic, and security issues facing Northeast Asia.

Operational CenterBrookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy

The Brookings-Tsinghua Center brings together Chinese and American scholars to sharpen thinking about, research on, and understanding of public policy issues raised by China's emergence.

Policy CenterWolfensohn Center for Development

The Wolfensohn Center seeks effective solutions to key development challenges in order to create a more prosperous and stable world with a focus on aid effectiveness, early childhood development and Middle East youth.

ExpertAlice M. Rivlin

Alice Rivlin, the first director of the Congressional Budget Office, is an expert on urban issues as well as fiscal, monetary and social policy. She directs the Greater Washington Research project. 

ExpertErica S. Downs

Erica Downs focuses on Chinese energy and foreign policies, as well as institutional change and government-business relations in China’s energy sector. She was an energy analyst at the CIA.

ExpertCheng Li

A director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Cheng Li focuses on the transformation of political leaders, generational change and technological development in China.

ExpertWarwick J. McKibbin

An international economics expert based in Australia, Warwick McKibbin focuses his research on global climate change; the emergence of China and India into the world economy; and global economic modeling.

Research ProjectLatin America Initiative

The Latin America Initiative provides high-quality, in-depth, and independent research across a range of economic and political issues, and offers policy recommendations aimed at U.S. and Latin American policymakers. Read More

ExpertSarah A. Binder

Sarah Binder is an expert on Congress and legislative politics.  Her current projects focus on the politics of federal judicial selection and the consequences of partisan polarization.

ExpertWing Thye Woo

Wing Thye Woo, an expert on the East Asian economies, particularly China, Indonesia and Malaysia, has advised the U.S. Treasury Department, the IMF, World Bank and the United Nations.

ExpertRebecca Blank

Rebecca Blank is an expert on the interaction between the macroeconomy, government anti-poverty programs, and the behavior and well being of low-income families. She has just been named the Robert V. Kerr senior fellow at Brookings.

Policy CenterJohn L. Thornton China Center

The John L. Thornton China Center develops analysis and policy recommendations to help address key long-term challenges, both in terms of U.S.-China relations and China's internal development.

ProgramGovernance Studies

Governance Studies explores political institutions of the United States and other democracies to assess how they govern, how their practices compare and how citizens and public servants can advance sound governance.