Legend for Reading material:
- Networks:"A first course in network science" by Menczer, Fortunato, Davies.
- Agents: "Agent-based models for economics" by DelliGatti et al.
Week | Date | Topic | Material | Reading Material |
1 | 19 September 2023 | 01 - Introduction | slides | Networks Chapter 0 |
21 September 2023 | 02 - Network elements | slides | Networks Chapter 1 | |
22 September 2023 | 03 - Small worlds | slides | Networks Chapter 2 | |
2 | 26 September 2023 | 04 - Hubs | slides | Networks Chapter 3 |
28 September 2023 | 05 - Network models | slides | Networks Chapter 5 | |
29 September 2023 | 06 - Network models | slides | Networks Chapter 5 | |
3 | 3 October 2023 | 07 - Community detection | slides | Networks Chapter 6 |
5 October 2023 | No lecture | |||
6 October 2023 | 08 - Community detection | slides | Networks Chapter 6 | |
4 | 10 October 2023 | 09 - Opinion dynamics | slides | Networks Chapter 7 |
12 October 2023 | 10 - Robustness and influence maximisation | slides | Networks Chapter 7 and 3 | |
13 October 2023 | 11 - Financial examples and discussion | slides | No required reading | |
5 | 17 October 2023 | 12 - GUEST LECTURE ONLINE | No required reading | |
19 October 2023 | 13 - Exam preparation and mid-course revision | slides | No required reading | |
20 October 2023 | 14 - Introduction to agent-based models | slides | ABM Chapters 1, 2, and 3 | |
6 | 24 October 2023 | 15 - Agent behaviour I | slides | ABM Chapter 4 and 5 |
26 October 2023 | 16 - Agent behaviour II | slides | ABM Chapter 4 and 5 | |
27 October 2023 | 17 - Agent behaviour III | slides | ABM Chapter 4 and 5 | |
7 | BREAK | |||
8 | 7 November 2023 | 18 - Coursework 2 presentation | coursework2 | No reading required (except from the coursework file, obviously) |
9 November 2023 | 19 - Stylised facts in finance | slides | Papers:
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10 November 2023 | 20 - Interaction and experiments | slides | ABM Chapter 6 and 7 | |
9 | 14 November 2023 | 21 - Validation | slides | ABM Chapter 8 |
16 November 2023 | 22 - Estimation | slides | ABM Chapter 9 | |
17 November 2023 | 23 - Case studies of ABMs in ecnomics and finance | slides | Not required, but an extensive publication list can be found in the slides | |
10 | 21 November 2023 | NO LECTURE | ||
23 November 2023 | NO LECTURE | |||
24 November 2023 | 24 - Exam preparation and end-course revision | slides | ||
11 | 28 November 2023 | 25 - Q&A |