Towards Credible Agent-Based Policy Simulations: Disentangling Opportunities and Preferences in a Financial Inclusion Case Study of Egypt

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arXiv:2610.04515v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Credibility is a central topic for agent-based models intended to support policy-making. Simulations must not only represent the target scenarios and their core dynamics but also demonstrate that their assumptions, parameters, and outputs are empirically grounded and sufficiently accurate for their intended use. This paper addresses this challenge by presenting a general modelling framework, aligned with the Capability Approach, for building credib