Characteristic time scales of tick quotes on foreign currency markets: an empirical study and agent-based model

Authored by AH Sato

Date Published: 2006-03

DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2006-00125-x

Sponsors: Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

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Model Documentation: Other Narrative Mathematical description

Model Code URLs: Model code not found

Abstract

Power spectrum densities for the number of tick quotes per minute (market activity) on three currency markets (USD/JPY, EUR/USD, and JPY/EUR) for periods from January 1999 to December 2000 are analyzed. We find some peaks on the power spectrum densities at a few minutes. We develop the double-threshold agent model and confirm that stochastic resonance occurs for the market activity of this model. We propose a hypothesis that the periodicities found on the power spectrum densities can be observed due to stochastic resonance.
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