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WORKING PAPER · updated 2026-01-05
2026

Attention as a Budget Constraint and the Design of Robust Incentives

This paper develops a multitask model in which attention is the primary scarce resource. A decision-maker allocates a fixed stock of attention between a measured task, which produces observable output rewarded by a metri…

AttentionIncentivesRobustnessGoodhartTail Risk
WORKING PAPER · updated 2026-01-17
2026

Eine konfigurierbare zyklische Ökologie für agentenbasierte Experimente mit langem Zeithorizont unter Bedingungen von Ressourcenknappheit und Prädation.

Wir stellen eine konfigurierbare, räumlich explizite Umgebung vor, die agentenbasierte Experimente über lange Zeiträume unter Knappheit, Risiko und wechselnden Bedingungen ermöglicht. Die Welt besteht aus einem 256×256-R…

ÖkologieABMKnappheitPrädationUmwelt
SUBMITTED · updated 2026-01-04
2026

Incorporating the Irrational Substrates of Cognition into an ABM Research Framework

We propose a research framework for agent-based modeling that treats cognition as a mechanistic substrate rather than a simplifying assumption. The framework emphasizes attention, memory, inertia, and regime-switching dy…

ABMCognitionIrrationalityMechanismsEmergence
WORKING PAPER · updated 2026-01-05
2026

Metrics, Memory, and Mode Persistence: Internal Architecture as a Source of Macro Behavior

Standard economic and agent-based models often rely on thin optimizers whose behavior is fully characterized by stable preferences and explicit incentives. In this paper, we ask what changes when we do not propose a new…

MetricsMemoryMode PersistenceInstitutional DesignABM
WORKING PAPER · updated 2026-01-17
2026

Selective Recall Under Metric Pressure: Memory Corruption and Mode Persistence as Generators of Path-Dependent Macro-Regimes

Economic and agent-based models typically treat motivation as continuously revisable and memory as either a ledger or a nuisance. This work argues that these simplifications obscure a key causal surface: internal archite…

MemoryMetric PressurePath DependenceModesInstitutions
WORKING PAPER · updated 2026-01-17
2026

Trait-Based Selection, Specialization, and Elite-Targeted Violence in a Skill-Stratified Agent Society

We present an agent-based model in which fitness emerges from a coupled architecture of domain skill formation, ecological constraints, and strategic social conflict. Agents differ by domain-specific raw talent and accum…

SelectionSpecializationViolenceInequalityABM