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

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 02-109/3

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Computational Techniques; Simulation Modeling ; Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights ; Other Consumer Nondurables: Clothing, Textiles, Shoes, and Leather Goods; Household Goods; Sports Equipment ; General Regional Economics: Other ; Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: Other
• Subject: Industrial Districts ; Industrial Clusters ; Agent-Based Models ; Regionales Cluster ; Prato (Region)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fioretti, Guido
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Tinbergen Institute
• (where): Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• (when): 2002

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/86077
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET