generating firm size distribution with agent-based models
There is an empirical evidence that company sizes distribution follows power law, although such evidence is often based on the OLS methodology solely, which may give biased results. One way or another, the goal of the thesis was to present a relatively new approach of agent-based computational simulations modelling on this very example.
Two different simple approaches of monitoring the employees based on the existing model of Robert Axtell (a model where employees join companies in order to maximize their utility gains) are considered and a command-line simulation application written in Java was created. More about them in the actual thesis. Brief simulation results (compared to the original):
Exponents increased, however only certain parameter settings led to power law, attenuated by the sensitivity of indeterministic fac