International Seminars and Curses

PPGDE Advanced Studies on Economic Development - 2016

Advances in Economic Dynamics and Development: Economics and Complexity Third Meeting - 2016

June 13th to 17th, 2016

Curitiba – Paraná – Brazil

UFPR - Pró-Reitoria de Pós Graduação

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ

ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT

Graduate Program in Economic Development – PPGDE

Advanced Studies on Economic Development The Graduate Program in Economic Development (PPGDE) at the Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil, is promoting a cycle of intensive courses on

Advanced Studies on Economic Development during 2016. These courses will be ministered by the PPGDE’s Professors in partnership with foreigners Professors from international universities. On this action, PPGDE brings to the academic and non-academic audience the opportunity to be in contact with the state of art in several thematic related to the field of economic development. These courses encompass theoretical, historical and quantitative approaches and its issues are listed below.

• Complexity and Economics (June, 2016)

• Applied Computable General Equilibrium Models (July, 2016)

• Business History (September, 2016)

• Institutions and Economics (2nd Semester, 2016)

Economics and Complexity The cycle of Advanced Studies in Economic Development

starts with the topic Complexity and Economics, which has become an increasing and promising field of research in all area of knowledge. New concepts, theories and methods are helping scientists and policy makers to improve and extend their comprehension about the reality. In social science, especially in economics, the complexity science is helping to gain

access to the black box of interactions among agents at different levels, connecting the micro behavior to macro consequences in a new and instigating way, far beyond the traditional representative agent approach. For the first time in the history of science, new computational methods allow for the exploration of the world of

interaction among agents, making visible a significant portion of reality that has been covered by the tunic of invisibility. The economic development is full of complexities. It is a dynamic, cumulative, heterogeneous, multi-level, diversified and evolutionary phenomenon that evolves continually and sometimes disruptively.

Course Workload General: 40 hours Graduate Students: 45 hours (extra activity) = 3 credit

Registration Registration for the Advances in Dynamics and Economic Development: Economics and Complexity is open from: 10 May, 2016 to 30 May, 2016. To fill on-line form, please visit the web-page: www.economia.ufpr.br.

Fees No fee will be charge. Please, do not fill the form if you are not sure to participate.

Vacancies Students 30 Researchers, Professors 15 Community 5

Accomodations The non-resident participants should arrange the accommodations, including hotels and meals. If help is needed, please, contact the PPGDE Secretariat for assistance.

Course Coordination Prof. João Basilio Pereima Fone 55(041) 3360-4397 joaobasilio@ufpr.br

PPGDE Secretariat - Contact Aurea Koch or Andréa Silva Fone: 55(041) 3360-4400, 3360-4405 ppgde@ufpr.br

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ

ECONOMIC DEPARTMENT

Graduate Program in Economic Development – PPGDE

Advanced Studies on Economic Development - 2016

Advances in Economic Dynamics and Development: Economics and Complexity – 3rd Meeting

Schedule (version 2) June 13th to 17th, 2016

Mon Tue Wed Thu Frid

Theoretical Section 1 Theoretical Section 3 Theoretical Section 4 Theoretical Section 5 Laboratory - LSD 4

Morning 1. Complexity Science - an overview (2h) João Basilio Pereima 2. Complexity in Economics: the word of interactions (2h) João Basilio Pereima/Adriana Sbicca

Morning 4. Agent Based Theory and Modelling (2h) Tommaso Ciarli 5. An NK-like Model for Complexity (2h) Marco Valente

Morning 6. Complexity and self-organized systems (2h) Gustavo Aggio 7. Micro and Macro dynamics: exploring the many levels of interactions (2h) Marco Valente/João Basilio

Morning 8. Sociability and individual decision making (2h) Gustavo Aggio 9. ABM Growth, Distribution and Structural Change (2h) Tommaso Ciarli

Morning Programming (continuation…) All

Theoretical Section 2 Laboratory - LSD 1 Laboratory - LSD 2 Laboratory - LSD 3 Laboratory - LSD 5

Afternoon 3. Methodology of simulations in social sciences (2h) Marco Valente Preparing LSD for launching João Basilio Pereima

Afternoon Building a complete model since the beginning (computer programming) All

Afternoon Programming (continuation…) All

Afternoon Programming (continuation…) All

Afternoon Concluding the model. Running a complete experiment with analysis and “R” interface All

Obs: Laboratory for Simulation and Developmet (LSD) – it is recommended to use personal notebook. The classes will be programming intensive. Preliminary Program: subject to change

Marco Valente (L´Aquila, Italy) Associate Professor in Economics, Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics, University of L'Aquila and visiting fellow at University of Sussex, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). Research area: Complexity, networks, demand and industrial dynamics, simulation modelling, methodology of simulations in social sciences; evolutionary economics.

Gustavo Aggio (Unicamp, Brazil) Associate Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Research area: Complexity; Out-off equilibrium dynamics; games theory, individual making decision and social choice; growth and monetary theory, green economy.

Tommaso Ciarli (Sussex, UK) Senior research fellow at SPRU, University of Sussex. Research area: economic development, micro-macro models, technological change, growth, and the effects of conflicts.

João Basilio Pereima (UFPR, Brazil) Associate Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). Research area: Complexity, agent-based economics, computational economics, growth and development, structural change, evolutionary economics, micro-macro economics.

Adriana Sbicca (UFPR, Brazil) Associate Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). Research area: Complexity, agent-based economics, consumer theory, behavioural economics, evolutionary economics.