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Realistic Simulation of Financial Markets

Analyzing Market Behaviors by the Third Mode of Science

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Hajime Kita

    1. Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University Institute, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Kazuhisa Taniguchi

    1. Faculty of Economics, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan

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  3. Yoshihiro Nakajima

    1. Graduate School of Economics, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

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  • Presents the ultra-realistic artificial market simulator U-Mart that can simulate “arrowhead” in the Tokyo Stock Exchange and other markets
  • Draws on more than 10 years of academic experiments to create a unique educational tool
  • Introduces a new approach for interdisciplinary research bringing together economics and engineering

Part of the book series: Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science (EESCS, volume 4)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. U-Mart System: The First Test Bed of the Third Mode of Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Guided Tour of the Backside of Agent-Based Simulation

      • Yoshinori Shiozawa
      Pages 3-50

    3. Research on ABS and Artificial Market

      • Hajime Kita
      Pages 51-58

    4. Building Artificial Markets for Evaluating Market Institutions and Trading Strategies

      • Isao Ono, Hiroshi Sato
      Pages 59-85

    5. A Perspective on the Future of the Smallest Big Project in the World

      • Takao Terano
      Pages 87-93

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 195-197
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This book takes up unique agent-based approaches to solving problems related to stock and their derivative markets. Toward this end, the authors have worked for more than 15 years on the development of an artificial market simulator called U-Mart for use as a research and educational tool. A noteworthy feature of the U-Mart simulator compared to other artificial market simulators is that U-Mart is an ultra-realistic artificial stock and their derivative market simulator. For example, it can simulate “arrowhead,” a next-generation trading system used in the Tokyo Stock Exchange and other major markets, as it takes into consideration the institutional design of the entire market. Another interesting feature of the U-Mart simulator is that it permits both human and computer programs to participate simultaneously as traders in the artificial market. In this book, first the details of U-Mart are explained, enabling readers to install and run the simulator on their computers for research andeducational purposes. The simulator thus can be used for gaming simulation of the artificial market and even for users as agents to implement their own trading strategies for agent-based simulation (ABS).The book also presents selected research cases using the U-Mart simulator. Here, topics include automated acquisition of trading strategy using artificial intelligence techniques, evaluation of a market maker system to treat thin markets such as those for small and regional businesses, systemic risk analysis of the financial market considering institutional design of the market, and analysis of how humans behave and learn in gaming simulation. New perspectives on artificial market research are provided, and the power, potential, and challenge of ABS are discussed. As explained in this important work, ABS is considered to be an effective tool as the third approach of social science, an alternative to traditional literary and mathematical approaches.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University Institute, Kyoto, Japan

    Hajime Kita

  • Faculty of Economics, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan

    Kazuhisa Taniguchi

  • Graduate School of Economics, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

    Yoshihiro Nakajima

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