Proponents of behavioral finance have identified several "puzzles" in the market that are inconsistent with rational finance theory. One such puzzle is the "excess volatility puzzle". Changes in equity prices are too large given changes in the fundamentals that are expected to change equity prices. In this paper, we of…
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A Kyle-inspired model with adaptive agents explains excess volatility and volatility clustering.
problem Reconciling asymmetrically informed traders with adaptive market hypothesis.
method Proposes a model with adaptive agents using inductive reasoning, reconciling Kyle model with Adaptive Market Hypothesis.
result Microfoundations for GARCH models and volatility clustering explained.
Improved financial market calibration reveals large excess volatility.
problem Large excess volatility in financial markets.
method Extended Chiarella model to handle long-term value drifts, calibrated on multiple asset classes.
result Large excess volatility (factor ≈ 4 for stock indices) and bimodal mispricing distribution.
Trading behavior and excess volatility in toy marketscond-mat.stat-mech
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 {\em i)} the neglect of market impact implicit in price taking behavior and of {\em ii)} excessive re…
Unified theory explains market impact using a simplified supply-demand parameter.
problem Understanding the market impact of metaorders and excess volatility.
method Coarse-grained approach with a single parameter ρ to model supply-demand equilibrium and market impact.
result Establishes a connection between excess volatility and order-driven markets through the square-root law.
Studying Binomial and Gaussian return dynamics in discrete time, we show how excess volatility can be traded to create growth. We test our results on real world data to confirm the observed model phenomena while also highlighting implicit risks.
Two models predict similar high-frequency price dynamics but differ in low-frequency impact strength.
problem Understanding the relationship between market prices and fundamental information.
method Comparing a microfounded linear model with a data-driven model at high and low frequencies.
result Both models predict similar high-frequency price dynamics but differ in low-frequency impact strength.
New financial price model using earning yield derived from CIR process.
problem Excess volatility and equity premium puzzles in financial markets.
method Proposes a new financial price process based on earning yield and Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) process.
result Derives analytically stylized facts of financial prices and returns, including power law distribution of returns and fat-tailed distribution of prices.
Modeling financial chaos with market makers' risk appetite.
problem Unpredictable price changes in financial markets.
method Using Hamiltonian approach with anharmonic oscillators and nonlinear coupling.
result Market makers' risk appetite determines chaotic dynamics in financial markets.
Market Ecology, Pareto Wealth Distribution and Leptokurtic Returns in Microscopic Simulation of the LLS Stock Market Modelcond-mat.stat-mech
The LLS stock market model is a model of heterogeneous quasi-rational investors operating in a complex environment about which they have incomplete information. We review the main features of this model and several of its extensions. We study the effects of investor heterogeneity and show that predation, competition, o…
How do macro-financial shocks affect investor behavior and market dynamics? Recent evidence on experience effects suggests a long-lasting influence of personally experienced outcomes on investor beliefs and investment, but also significant differences across older and younger generations. We formalize experience-based …
SOC theory explains financial volatility and economic shocks.
problem Excess volatility and small shocks causing large disruptions.
method Explains system behavior at critical point with fat-tailed fluctuations.
result SOC theory offers a plausible solution to financial market volatility.
Limits To (Machine) Learningstat.ML
Machine learning's predictive power is limited by sample size, as shown by the Limits-to-Learning Gap.
problem The limitations of machine learning in approximating true data-generating processes.
method Characterization of a universal lower bound (LLG) quantifying the discrepancy between empirical fit and population benchmark.
result Standard ML approaches can substantially understate true predictability in financial data.
Market inefficiencies arise from density-dependent returns in a noisy environment.
problem Market inefficiencies and excess volatility.
method Developed a market model using ecological concepts.
result Market dynamics are density-dependent, leading to inefficiencies.
In the present paper a model of a market consisting of real and financial interacting sectors is studied. Agents populating the stock market are assumed to be not able to observe the true underlying fundamental, and their beliefs are biased by either optimism or pessimism. Depending on the relevance they give to belief…
This short review presents a selected history of the mutual fertilization between physics and economics, from Isaac Newton and Adam Smith to the present. The fundamentally different perspectives embraced in theories developed in financial economics compared with physics are dissected with the examples of the volatility…
On the concentration of large deviations for fat tailed distributions, with application to financial datacond-mat.stat-mech
Large deviations for fat tailed distributions, i.e. those that decay slower than exponential, are not only relatively likely, but they also occur in a rather peculiar way where a finite fraction of the whole sample deviation is concentrated on a single variable. The regime of large deviations is separated from the regi…
We present a simple agent-based model to study the development of a bubble and the consequential crash and investigate how their proximate triggering factor might relate to their fundamental mechanism, and vice versa. Our agents invest according to their opinion on future price movements, which is based on three source…
The Subtle Interplay between Square-root Impact, Order Imbalance & Volatility: A Unifying Frameworkq-fin.TR
New framework explains market volatility and metaorder impact.
problem Reconciling contradictory observations in market microstructure.
method Introducing a new theoretical framework to describe metaorders with different signs, sizes, and durations.
result Price diffusion is ensured by long memory of cross-correlations between metaorders.