Individual Contacts, Collective Patterns - Prato 1975-97, a Story of Interactions

This article presents an agent-based modelof Prato, an Italian textile district where thousands ofsma1l firms specialise into tiny phases of the whole production process. It is an empirical model atscale 1: 1 that reconstructs the information flows between economic actors and connects them tostructural properties of the district. It studies the evolution of Prato from 1975 to 1997.

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Fioretti, Guido
Publisher:	Amsterdam and Rotterdam : Tinbergen Institute
Subject:	Regionales Cluster \| Prato (Region) \| Industrial Districts \| Industrial Clusters \| Agent-Based Models

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Series:	Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; 02-109/3
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	834851415 [GVK] hdl:10419/86077 [Handle] RePEc:dgr:uvatin:20020109 [RePEc]
Classification:	C63 - Computational Techniques ; D23 - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; L67 - Other Consumer Nondurables: Clothing, Textiles, Shoes, and Leather ; R19 - General Regional Economics. Other ; R39 - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location. Other
Source:	EconStor

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