Currently, the initial outstanding long-term debt and undepreciated PPE are hardcoded values set by the user in gc_params.yml. These values should be computed based on the agents' actual owned portfolios. Otherwise, adding new agents or reconfiguring the holdings of existing ones is labor-intensive and prone to errors, and unreasonable inputs for starting debt and PPE can cause hard-to-diagnose misbehavior by agents.
Currently, the initial outstanding long-term debt and undepreciated PPE are hardcoded values set by the user in
gc_params.yml. These values should be computed based on the agents' actual owned portfolios. Otherwise, adding new agents or reconfiguring the holdings of existing ones is labor-intensive and prone to errors, and unreasonable inputs for starting debt and PPE can cause hard-to-diagnose misbehavior by agents.