Agent-based Simulation for Research in Economics

Clemens Dinther ()
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Clemens Dinther: Universität Karlsruhe (TH)

Chapter 18 in Handbook on Information Technology in Finance, 2008, pp 421-442 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Financial theory and financial markets are complex constructs that are not always easy to understand. It is even not possible to explain the function of financial markets on basis of theoretical analysis, since theory normally assumes fully rational agents. [37] have presented the so called “No trade theorem” stating that in a state of efficient equilibrium there will be no trade on markets as long as all participants are fully rational (no noise traders or other uninformed traders) and the structure of information acqusition is common knowledge. It is obvious that the assumptions do not hold in real markets, since we observe asymmetric informed participants or technical traders who base their decisions on the analysis of market movements (and not on the assessment of the underlying value of a stock).

Keywords: Nash Equilibrium; Monte Carlo; Optimal Policy; Markov Decision Process; Stochastic Game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49487-4_18

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