The paper proposes an elementary agent-based asset pricing model that, invoking the two trader types of fundamentalists and chartists, comprises four features: (i) price determination by excess demand; (ii) a herding mechanism that gives rise to a macroscopic adjustment equation for the market...

Trotz jahrzehntelanger Forschung zur Gültigkeit der Hypothese informationseffizienter Kapitalmärkte (EMH) sind wesentliche damit verbundene Fragestellungen noch immer ungeklärt. Eine ist diejenige nach der Existenz und der Erklärung von zeitvariablen Überrenditen ("Time Varying Excess...

We develop a financial market model with interacting chartists and fundamentalists that embeds the famous bull and bear market model of Huang and Day as a special case. Their model is given by a one-dimensional continuous piecewise-linear map. Our model, on the other hand, is more flexible and...