Agentenbasierte Modellierung von Märkten

Agent-based modeling of markets The paper gives an overview of agent-based models of markets as they have been published during the past years. Starting from concept-based models which describe the behaviour of market participants in an abstract manner, recent approaches model real markets in order to find out possible future developments and to evaluate strategies to influence real markets. After a short description of two recent applications of agent-based modeling, a housing market in a city in Brazil and the German market for pharmaceutical products, the paper discusses how this technique could be applied to wood markets.