How to investigate the decision making behavior of investors in financial markets by means of software agents

  • Authors:
  • Filippo Neri

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Naples, Department of Computer Science, Napoli, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACMOS'10 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Automatic control, modelling & simulation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Financial markets are an example of complex systems where relevant behavior happens to be a synthesis of independent and singular decisions taken by individual entities operating in them. Such is the case of financial markets where several investors autonomously decide what investment decisions to undertake. In our work, in particular, we focus our attention to the following research question: can a software agent simulation reproduce the behaviour of a significant financial market time serie by concentrating on many simple interactions among investors-agents. A case study where we use our software agent based simulation to track the S&P500 index is described and discussed.