On the nature of the stock market: Simulations and experiments

Details On the nature of the stock market: Simulations and experiments On the nature of the stock market: Simulations and experiments

2000-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0010211v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

227 pages, PhD thesis

Scientific paper

In this dissertation two simple models of stock exchange are developed and simulated numerically. The first is characterized by centralized trading with a market maker. Unfortunately, this model is unable to generate realistic market dynamics. The second model discards the requirement of centralized trading. Under variation of the control parameter the model exhibits two phase transitions: both a first- and a second-order (critical). The decentralized model is able to capture many of the interesting properties observed in empirical markets. Significantly, these properties only emerge when the parameters are tuned such that the model spans the critical point. This suggests that real markets may operate at or near a critical point, but is unable to explain why this should be. One of the main points of the thesis is that these empirical phenomena are not present in the stochastic driving force, but emerge endogenously from interactions between agents.

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