Computational economics is a research discipline at the interface of
computer science,
economics, and
management science. Areas and subjects encompassed include
computational modeling of
economic systems, whether
agent-based,
general-equilibrium,
macroeconomic, or
rational-expectations, computational
econometrics and statistics,
computational finance, computational tools for the design of automated
internet markets, programming tools specifically designed for computational economics, and pedagogical tools for the teaching of computational economics. Some of these areas are unique to computational economics, while others extend traditional areas of economics by solving problems that are difficult to study without the use of computers and associated
numerical methods.