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WEHIA 2025

28th Annual Workshop on Economics with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents

June 9-11, 2025
Queen Mary University of London

327 Mile End Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom

Co-organised by the School of Economics and Finance, the School of Business and Management and supported by Computational and Quantitative Methods research group and Queen Mary’s Digital Environment Research Institute.

WEHIA 2025 represents a unique opportunity to present and discuss the latest research on various aspects of the economy as a complex system made up of heterogeneous interacting agents. The Workshop is intended to foster diversity in the approach and in the methodology used to analyze economic issues.

Please see the call for papers here to submit your contribution. Submission is open until 23/3/2025 [Extended].

Plenary speakers

  • Antonio Cabrales (Carlos III)
  • Max Kasy (Oxford)
  • Lllia Maliar (City University of New York)
  • Friederike Mengel (University of Essex)
  • Peter Skott (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  • Milena Tsvetkova (London School of Economics)
  • Arzu Uluc (Bank of England)

Main Topics

  • Agent Based Models (ABMs): Theory, Computation and Estimation
  • Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Social Sciences
  • Bounded Rationality and Learning
  • Complex Economic Dynamics
  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Economic Growth and Technical Change
  • Economic, Financial and Social Networks
  • Environmental policy
  • Evolutionary Game Theory
  • Experimental Economics
  • Spatial Agent Models and Urban Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Sustainable Development and Climate Change
  • Wealth and Income Inequality

Organising Committee

  • Guven Demirel
  • Giorgos Galanis
  • Zeynep Gurguc
  • Lilit Popoyan
  • Roberto Veneziani
  • Nick Vriend

Call for Papers

Contributions should be submitted in the form of extended abstracts (max 2 pages). To submit your contribution you need to fill in this form and send the abstract in PDF format to wehia2025@qmul.ac.uk. The first page of the submitted material must contain authors’ affiliations and, at least, three keywords. In case of co-authored research, the submitter will be assumed to be the presenter, unless differently specified. Only one paper per presenter is allowed.

  • Deadline for submissions: March 23, 2025 [Extended]
  • Notification of acceptance: Early April 2025

A Call for Papers in MS Word format can be downloaded here: WEHIA 2025 Call for Papers Extension [DOC 89KB]

Registration and Fees

Participants who wish to present a paper must register and pay the submission fee by 12 May 2025.

There are the following tiers:

  • Fee for regular participants: : £265 
  • Fee for currently enrolled (PhD) students: £180 
  • Participants from Low Income Countries : £130

Registration fee includes:      

  • admission to all sessions
  • one-year membership to the Society for Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents
  • Welcome BBQ on Monday after sessions
  • Sitting dinner on Tuesday after sessions
  • 2 lunches, on Tuesday and Wednesday
  • coffee breaks    

Accommodation is not included in the fee. A potential accommodation list is provided here as an information source, the hotels included have not been inspected or endorsed by Housing Services.

Special Issue

The Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination will publish a special issue dedicated to a selection of papers accepted to WEHIA 2025. The submission deadline will be announced subsequent to the conference.

Contact

Please direct all questions to wehia2025@qmul.ac.uk. 

 

 

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