Motivated from the charting analysis in the financial industry, Chen and He (2003) are the first to use self-organizing maps to search for and identify price patterns. Such a model is referred to as the trajectory-domain model (TDM). Chen and Tsao (2003) apply the TDMs to three American stock...

In this paper, we propose a new architecture to study artificial stock markets. This architecture rests on a mechanism called "school" which is a procedure for mapping the phenotype to the genotype or, in plain English, to uncover the secret of success. We propose an agent-based model of school,...

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...

In this paper, an agent-based computational capital asset pricing model is applied to address an issue, known as the elasticity puzzle, originating from a famous reciprocal relation between the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS) and the relative risk aversion (RRA) coefficient. By...

Using the framework of agent-based artificial stock markets, this paper addresses the two well-known properties frequently observed in financial markets, namely, price-volume relation and sunspots, from a bottom-up perspective. In spirit of ``bottom-up'', these two phenomena are pursued in a...

Using GP with lambda abstraction module mechanism to generate technical trading rules based on S&P 500 index, we find strong evidence of excess returns over buy-and-hold after transaction cost on the testing period from 1989 to 2002. The rules can be interpreted easily; each uses a combination...

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...

Blume and Easly [1992] show that if agents have the same savings rule, an expected discounted logarithmic utility maximizer with correct beliefs will dominate. If no agent adopts this rule, then agents with incorrect beliefs, but equally averse to risk as logarithmic utility maximizers, may...