This paper uses a two-country setup of the Eurace@Unibi model to study the economic impact of a sizable level of forced migration into two countries that form a political and currency union. We consider the case in which the origin of migration is outside the union and immigrants exhibit skill levels that are on average […]
Using a dynamic heterogeneous agent industry model we examine the impact of manager remuneration schemes on firms investment decisions and on the evolution of their competitiveness and share values. Whereas an increase in the share-based manager remuneration component is always bene cial to the manager, it is bene cial for shareholders only if such a change in […]
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, with periphery countries in the European Union even more falling behind the core countries economically, there have been quests for various kind of fiscal policies in order to revert divergence. How these policies would unfold and perform comparatively is largely unknown. We analyze four such styl- ized policies […]
This paper provides a detailed description of the Eurace@Unibi model, which has been developed as a versatile tool for economic policy analysis. The model explicitly incorporates the decentralized interaction of heterogeneous agents across different sectors and regions. The modeling of individual behavior is based on heuristics with empirical microfoundations. Although Eurace@Unibi has been applied successfully […]
