TRADING BEHAVIOR AND EXCESS VOLATILITY IN TOY MARKETS
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- Published by World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd in Advances in Complex Systems
- Vol. 4 (1) , 3-17
- https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219525901000024
Abstract
We study the relation between the trading behavior of agents and volatility in toy markets of adaptive inductively rational agents. We show that excess volatility, in such simplified markets, arises as a consequence of (i) the neglect of market impact implicit in price taking behavior and of (ii) excessive reactivity of agents. These issues are dealt with in detail in the simple case without public information. We also derive, for the general case, the critical learning rate above which trading behavior leads to turbulent dynamics of the market.Keywords
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