This paper studies the behavior of price discovery within a context of an agent based stock market in which the twin assumptions namely, rational expectations and the representative agents normally made in mainstream economics, are removed. In this model, traders stochastically update their...

In this paper, we will give a review on the development of artificial adaptive economic agents in evolutionary economics. The review starts from a 1986 paper by Robert Lucas, a Nobel Prize laureate in economics. From there, we shall see how the idea of economic adaptive agents was enriched and...

The relationship between competitiveness and market performance has been discussed for a long time. In a competitive economic environment, each firm or individual is unable to influence the market. It has been mentioned in the economics courses that the competitive market is more efficient and...