This book takes up unique agent-based approaches to solving problems related to stock and their derivative markets. Toward this end, the authors have worked for more than 15 years on the development of an artificial market simulator called U-Mart for use as a research and educational tool. A...

Einleitung -- Individuelle Rationalität als Bedingung für kollektive Rationalität (Effizienz) von Finanzmärkten -- Der Rationalitätsbegriff im Kontext der Effizienzmarkthypothese und seine Probleme -- Die Effizienzmarkthypothese als instrumentalistisches Marktmodell -- Individuelles...

"This book is about economic and financial market cycles and the factors that affect them. The motivation for writing it has been my longstanding fascination with how repeated patterns of behaviour and market cycles seem to exist despite the enormous changes that have occurred in economies,...

"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of cultural finance. It summarizes research results of cultural differences in financial decision making and on financial markets. Many of the results have been published in leading academic journals over the last ten years but...