Working Paper  ·  2026

Working Title: Linking Regional Extreme Weather Events and Opinion Dynamics
to Macroeconomic Outcomes

A Regional Version of DSK (Dystopian Schumpeter meets Keynes) Agent Based Macroeconomic Model with Opinion Dynamics Module

Anmol Soni1 · Tina Comes2 · Francesco Lamperti3 · Giulia Piccillo1 · Andrea Roventini3 · Tania Treibich1

1 School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

2 Faculty of Technology Policy & Management, TU Delft

3  Institute of Economics, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

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About the Project

This project extends the Stock-Flow Consistent (SFC) version of DSK agent-based macroeconomic model (Reissl et al., 2025) to a multi-region setting and integrates opinion dynamics module of Lackner et al. (2025) to study how heterogenous regional extreme weather events shape climate policy support and macroeconomic trajectories.

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ABM Model Sprint Planning
Agent-Based Modelling Stock-Flow Consistent Climate Economics Opinion Dynamics Regional Heterogeneity

All meeting minutes are maintained on Google Docs — including action items, decisions, open questions, and progress updates from regular team meetings.

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The living document is a versioned slide deck hosted in this repository. It is updated regularly to reflect the current state of the model, simulation results, and planned next steps.
ABM Model Sprint Planning
Current Status:
Working on conceptualization of regional govt.s' investments post climate shocks.

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Conferences & Presentations

Venues where this research has been or will be presented.

Upcoming

May 28, 2026

MILE Seminar

📍 Maastricht University, Netherlands

Early stage simulation results showcasing path dependency originated by regional investments and local heterogenous climate shocks in the DSK model.

June 15-17, 2026

WEHIA & EC 2026

📍 Ancona, Italy

Early stage simulation results showcasing path dependency originated by regional investments and local heterogenous climate shocks in the DSK model.

June 29-30, 2026

Computing in Economics and Finance

📍 Venice, Italy

Early stage simulation results showcasing path dependency originated by regional investments and local heterogenous climate shocks in the DSK model.

Past

February 2026

Workshop | Macroeconomic Implications of Climate-Related Risks

📍 Pisa, Italy

Presented early stage simulation results showcasing path dependency originated by local heterogenous climate shocks in the DSK model.


Presentation Slides

Source Code

The WIP model is open source and available on GitHub.

SoniAnmol / RegionalDSKSFC

A regional , stock-flow consistent (SFC) agent-based macroeconomic model integrating opinion dynamics to study how heterogenous regional extreme weather events shape climate policy support and macroeconomic trajectories.

C++ ABM SFC Climate Economics
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Contact

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Anmol Soni

PhD Candidate - Computational Climate Economics
School of Business and Economics
Maastricht University

🌐  anmol.phd ✉  anmol.soni@maastrichtuniversity.nl