creators_name: Fioretti, Guido type: other datestamp: 2005-05-05 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:03 metadata_visibility: show title: Financial fragility in a basic agent-based model ispublished: unpub subjects: socsim full_text_status: public keywords: Financial Fragility, Avalanches of Bankruptcies, Agent-based Models abstract: A simple agent-based model of business units lending money to one another is sufficient to understand on what conditions avalanches of bankruptcies may arise. The model highlights the consequences of specialisation into money lending as well as the impact of preferential lending relations. date: 2004-09 date_type: published refereed: FALSE citation: Fioretti, Guido (2004) Financial fragility in a basic agent-based model. (Unpublished) document_url: http://cogprints.org/4341/1/frag.pdf