International Microsimulation Association

Promoting free inter-change of experience and ideas between practitioners of microsimulation worldwide

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About the Association

The International Microsimulation Association was founded in October 2005 with the aim of advancing the field of microsimulation. Microsimulation is a technique developed by Guy Orcutt which uses individual level data to model economic and social outcomes. The important detail is that all the modelling is done at the individual level, allowing the person doing the modelling to identify impacts of an external factor, like Government Policy, on individuals, families, households, firms, etc. These impacts can then be aggregated, and the impact on different sub-groups of the population (eg, age, income group, etc) can be identified. In the field, this is called identifying the distributional impacts. The paper outlining Orcutt’s original vision is republished in the International Journal of Microsimulation. Learn More

Recent and Upcoming Events

Launch of “e-SearchM”, innovative collaborative internet search tool for microsimulation (2024)

Developed by LISER, the platform (https://e-searchm.liser.lu/) will progressively identify and make resources available to the microsimulation comm...

9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association (2024)

The Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) is pleased to host the 9th World Congress of the International Microsimulation Association (IMA)...

Celebrating tax-benefit modeling: 50 years with LOTTE (2023)

The tax-benefit model LOTTE-Skatt is a key tool of Norwegian tax policy decision-making. To mark its 50th anniversary Statistics Norway and the Nor...

European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association (2022)

The conference is open to all areas of microsimulation, including static and dynamic microsimulation, agent-based models, behavioural models, a...