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PolicySpace: a modeling platform

31 Dec 2017arXiv:1801.00259links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Bernardo Alves Furtado

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Public Policy involves proposing changes to existing practices, alternatives, new habits. Citizens and institutions react accordingly, accepting, refuting or adapting. Agent-based modeling is a tool that can enrich the policy analysis package explicitly considering dynamics, space and individual-level interactions. This paper presents a modeling platform called PolicySpace that models public policies within an empirical, spatial environment using data from 46 metropolitan regions in Brazil. We describe the basics of the model, its agents and markets, the tax scheme, the parametrization, and how to run the model. Finally, we validate the model and demonstrate an application of the fiscal analysis. Besides providing the basics of the platform, our results indicate the relevance of the rules of taxes transfer for cities' quality of life.

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