Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying
socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear …

This chapter surveys work dedicated to macroeconomic analysis using an agent-based
modeling approach. After a short review of the origins and general characteristics of this …

Efficiently calibrating agent-based models (ABMs) to real data is an open challenge. This
paper explicitly tackles parameter space exploration and calibration of ABMs by combining …

Abstract The Great Recession seems to be a natural experiment for economic analysis, in
that it has shown the inadequacy of the predominant theoretical framework-the New …

Climate change and policies to mitigate it could affect a central bank's ability to meet its
monetary stability objective. Climate change can affect the macroeconomy both through …

Macroeconomic modelling has been under intense scrutiny since the Great Financial Crisis,
when serious shortcomings were exposed in the methodology used to understand the …

Tipping points exist in social, ecological and climate systems and those systems are
increasingly causally intertwined in the Anthropocene. Climate change and biosphere …

Highlights•We review relevance and meaning of positive tipping points (PTPs) to assess the
required transformations for achieving the 2–1.5 C target.•A procedural synthesis is …

The present theoretical framework for the analysis of pattern formation in complex systems is
mostly limited to the vicinity of fixed (global) equilibria. Here we present a new theoretical …

Complex networked systems ranging from ecosystems and the climate to economic, social,
and infrastructure systems can exhibit a tipping point (a “point of no return”) at which a total …