The Santa Fe Arti cial Stock Market consists of a central computational market and a number of arti cially intelligent agents The agents choose be tween investing in a stock and leaving their money in the bank which pays a xed interest rate The stock pays a stochastic dividend and has a price which uc tuates according to agent demand The agents make their investment decisions by attempting to f...

herd behavior by investors in capital markets is a behavioral bias that can cause to undesirable effects such as bubble, crash and high fluctuation in stock price. this anomalies can disturb the equilibrium relations in stock market and lead to market inefficiency. herd behavior is a condition that investors with rational or in rational reasons ignore private information and imitate from others...

The volatility of stock market indicators goes beyond anyone’s reasonable explanations. Industry performance, economic, and political changes are among the major factors that can affect the stock market. This paper focuses on the effect of news that surfaces throughout the day in the stock market. While there are many influences behind the constant changes in stock market performance, we can st...

Stock markets strive to provide an efficient trading platform for investors. Trading rules and mechanisms issued to accomplish this differ among stock markets, and are subject to modification over time. Furthermore, market participants assume a broad range of roles and trading strategies. Such variation poses problems to those involved in the study of market dynamics, when developing an artific...

As the global financial crisis dethrones the developed world from its economic supremacy, by leading the global economic recovery and growth, the global growth generator (3G) countries are expected to fill the vacuum. Capital market i.e. stock market development can play a crucial role in augmenting such growth in these 3G countries. This study aims at augmenting the determinants of stock marke...

phenomenon of price manipulation is one of the factors which have caused mistrust of the investors to the stock market and inhibits its growth and prosperity. entering the shareholders into the stock market, on one hand leads to increase in the general level of revenues and on the other hand causes inexpensive financing for companies. in this research, at first by using duration dependence test...

to achieve the optimal model for capital asset pricing has always been a central issue in studies of the financial field. in this study we consider fama and french three-factor model augmented by the pastor and stambaugh (2003) liquidity risk factor. unlike most previous studies in this model, stock level beta is allowed to vary with firm-level size and book-to-market value. to verify the above...

In order to forecast the stock market more accurately, according to the dynamic property for the stock market, propose the real time modeling forecast via dynamic recurrent neural network and use GA to study online, then it improves the network performance and better describes the dynamic characteristic of stock market. By forecasting Shanghai negotiable securities index, it shows better validi...

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of prevailing market sentiments in real estate markets on the stock market response to the outcomes of real estate auctions in Hong Kong. The reactions of stock market to the winners of the auctions have at least two interesting implications. On one hand, the success in acquiring a real estate implies that the developer has acquired a project...

We study the effect that a general lack of trust can have on stock market participation. In deciding whether to buy stocks, investors factor in the risk of being cheated. The perception of this risk is a function of the objective characteristics of the stocks and the subjective characteristics of the investor. Less trusting individuals are less likely to buy stock and, conditional on buying sto...