Markets and Trading -- Agent’s Minimal Intelligence Calibration for Realistic Market Dynamics -- Trading on Marginal Information -- Stylized Facts Study through a Multi-Agent Based Simulation of an Artificial Stock Market -- Auctions -- A Variable Bid Increment Algorithm for Reverse English...

After a description of the new forms of globalization currently shaping our world, and of their possible spatial effects, the book highlights which European regions have in the past succeeded in taking advantage of globalization trends and identifies the major reasons for their success. The book...

1 Introduction -- 2 Microstructure Foundations -- 3 Empirical Properties of High-Frequency Data -- 4 Financial Point Processes -- 5 Univariate Multiplicative Error Models -- 6 Generalized Multiplicative Error Models -- 7 Vector Multiplicative Error Models -- 8 Modelling High-Frequency Volatility...