Leigh Tesfatsion

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Leigh Tesfatsion is a computational economist who teaches at Iowa State University. She received her doctorate at the University of Minnesota, and taught at the University of Southern California before moving to Iowa State. She is known for promoting agent-based models as an alternative to rational expectations general equilibrium models for studying markets, finance, and macroeconomic phenomena. Together with Kenneth Judd, she is one of the editors of Volume 2 of the Handbook of Computational Economics.

[edit] See also

• Leigh Tesfatsion's homepage
• Agent-Based Computational Economics
• Model (macroeconomics)

[edit] References

K. Judd and L. Testfatsion, eds., (2006), Handbook of Computational Economics, volume 2. Elsevier. ISBN 0444512535.