Development of a Multi-sector Bounded-Neighbourhood Model with intersectoral commodity-money interactions

Abstract

The article presents an approach to the development of an extended multi-sector bounded-neighbourhood with differentiated types of resources and intersectoral commodity-money interactions with implementation in the AnyLogic simulation tools. A feature of this approach is, firstly, a high degree of sectoral disaggregation (e.g., 42 types of economic activity are considered), and secondly, the three-level architecture of the proposed multi-agent system, which includes high-tech and low-tech resources as workplaces differentiated by types of economic activity (branches of the economy), and also multiple agents-individuals: natives and migrants with their own rules of behaviour and characteristics, and agents-sectors that provide the necessary structure of employment. We study the issues of software implementation of such a multi-level system in the AnyLogic, as well as the influence of the most important parameters of the model, in particular, such as the inflow rate of new migrants, dimensionality of forming industry clusters (i.e., a number of workplaces), level of wages by branches of the economy, etc. on the employment structure and the dynamics of gross domestic product, respectively.