DBBA: Schedule

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.
WeekDateTopicMaterialReading Material
117 September 202401 - IntroductionslidesNetworks Chapter 0
19 September 202402 - Network elementsslidesNetworks Chapter 1
20 September 202403 - Small worldsslidesNetworks Chapter 2
224 September 2024NO LECTURE  
26 September 202404 - HubsslidesNetworks Chapter 3
27 September 202405 - Network modelsslidesNetworks Chapter 5
301 October 202406 - Network modelsslidesNetworks Chapter 5
03 October 202407 - Community detectionslidesNetworks Chapter 6
04 October 202408 - Community detectionslidesNetworks Chapter 6
408 October 202409 - Opinion dynamicsslidesNetworks Chapter 7
10 October 2024 10 - Robustness and influence maximisationslidesNetworks Chapter 7 and 3
11 October 2024 11 - Financial examples and discussionslidesNo required reading
515 October 202412 - Exam preparation and mid-course revision No required reading
17 October 202413 - Introduction to agent-based modelsslidesABM Chapters 1, 2, and 3
18 October 202414 - Agent behaviour IslidesABM Chapter 4 and 5
622 October 202415 - Agent behaviour IIslidesABM Chapter 4 and 5 
24 October 202416 - Agent behaviour IIIslidesABM Chapter 4 and 5
25 October 202417 - Coursework 2 presentation No reading required (except from the coursework file, obviously)
7 BREAK - Focus on coursework 1  
805 November 202418 - Stylised facts in financeslides

Papers: 

  • Characterization of financial time series
  • Empirical properties of asset returns stylized facts and statistical issues
07 November 202419 - Interaction and experimentsslidesABM Chapter 6 and 7
08 November 202420 - ValidationslidesABM Chapter 8
912 November 202421 - EstimationslidesABM Chapter 9
14 November 202422 - Case studies of ABMs in ecnomics and financeslidesNot required, but an extensive publication list can be found in the slides
15 November 202423 - Exam preparation and end-course revision  
1019 November 202424 - GUEST LECTURE - TBD  
21 November 202424 - GUEST LECTURE - TBD  
22 November 202425 - Q&A  
11 Focus on coursework 2 and exam preparation  
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