This dissertation contains applications of agent-based financial market models and nonlinear econometric methods in financial economics. The first part deals with the analysis of the effectiveness of currency transaction taxes within financial market models with traders with heterogeneous...

Based on a classical financial market model different model variants known from the literature are discussed and analyzed, each focussing on modeling financial markets as a nonlinear dynamic system by introducing the formation of (heterogeneous) beliefs about future asset prices into the model...

Chapter 1: Introduction: The nature and structure of the inventory problem -- Chapter 2: Review of the literature -- Chapter 3: Methodology -- Chapter 4: Analysis of inventory behaviour of OECD countries -- Chapter 5: Stability of macroeconomic variables -- Chapter 6: Inventory developments in...

This paper uses a factor-augmented vector autoregression technique to examine the role that macroeconomic and sector-specific factors play in UK price fluctuations at the aggregate and disaggregated levels. Macroeconomic factors are less important for disaggregated prices than aggregate ones....