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A Classical Model of Speculative Asset Price Dynamics

In retrospect, the experimental findings on competitive market behavior called for a revival of the old, classical, view of competition as a collective higgling and bargaining process (as opposed to price-taking behaviors) founded on reservation prices (in place of the utility function). In this pap

Lab Rats Math 6.5 Rigor 4.5 ·  July 1, 2023

News-driven Expectations and Volatility Clustering

Financial volatility obeys two fascinating empirical regularities that apply to various assets, on various markets, and on various time scales: it is fat-tailed (more precisely power-law distributed) and it tends to be clustered in time. Many interesting models have been proposed to account for thes

Lab Rats Math 5.5 Rigor 4 ·  September 9, 2023

Perishable Goods versus Re-tradable Assets: A Theoretical Reappraisal of a Fundamental Dichotomy

Experimental results on market behavior establish a lower stability and efficiency of markets for durable re-tradable assets compared to markets for non-durable, or perishable, goods. In this chapter, we revisit this known but underappreciated dichotomy of goods in the light of our theory of competi

Lab Rats Math 5.5 Rigor 2.5 ·  September 7, 2023

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