In a complete market for short-lived assets, we investigate long run wealth-driven selection on a general class of investment rules that depend on endogenously determined current and past prices. We find that market instability, leading to asset mis-pricing and informational efficiencies, is a...

Entscheidungstheoretische Grundlagen -- Modellierung der Entscheidungen von Finanzmarktteilnehmern -- Multiagentensysteme und Finanzmarktsimulationen -- Entwicklung des Frameworks -- Zusammenfassung und abschließende Bemerkungen.

This introductory text is devoted to exposing the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures. Two different levels of this sociological...