Agent (economics)

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title: Agent (economics)
text: In economics, an agent is an actor in a model of some aspect of the economy. Typically, every agent makes decisions by solving a well- or ill-defined optimization or choice problem. For example, buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) are two common types of agents in partial equilibrium models of a single market. Macroeconomic models, especially dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models that are explicitly based on microfoundations, often distinguish households, firms, and governments or
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description: Actor and decision maker in an economic model
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date created: 2006-01-16T05:31:51Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T12:25:49Z
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