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Volatility and Agent Adaptability in a Self-Organizing Market

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1 adap-org Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

We present results for the so-called `bar-attendance' model of market behavior: pp adaptive agents, each possessing nn prediction rules chosen randomly from a pool, attempt to attend a bar whose cut-off is ss. The global attendance time-series has a mean near, but not equal to, ss. The variance, or `volatility', can show a minimum with increasing adaptability of the individual agents.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9802177,
  title  = {Volatility and Agent Adaptability in a Self-Organizing Market},
  author = {N. F. Johnson and S. Jarvis and R. Jonson and P. Cheung and Y. R. Kwong and P. M. Hui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9802177},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figs. n.johnson@physics.ox.ac.uk, pmhui@phy.cuhk.edu.hk

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